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PROCAS breast screening trial focuses on density
By Eric Barnes
An ambitious new breast screening study, the PROCAS (Predicting Risk of Cancer at Screening) trial, is aiming to not only answer important questions about breast density and cancer development but also evaluate the effectiveness of computer-aided detection in the screening of dense breasts.
October 6, 2011
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AuntMinnieEurope.com CT Insider
By Philip Ward
October 5, 2011
CT becomes valuable tool for assessing chest pain
By Philip Ward
CT coronary artery calcification is proving effective for triaging patients who have presented at the rapid access chest pain clinic in a leading U.K. hospital. Based on six years of experience, the technique may now be more useful than traditional assessment methods.
October 5, 2011
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Men may require earlier colorectal cancer screening
By Eric Barnes
A new analysis of colorectal adenomas found that men have significantly more advanced adenomas and colorectal cancers than women at all age groups, prompting the Austrian reserachers to recommend that men be screened earlier than women.
October 5, 2011
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Obesity and knee damage; hybrid imaging; abdominal MRA
By Philip Ward
October 4, 2011
German liver tumor center reaches milestone
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The Liver Tumor Center at the Essen University Hospital has treated its 500th patient with Nordion's TheraSphere.
October 4, 2011
Turkish hospital expands oncology care
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Staff at the Baskent University in Adana, Turkey, have treated their first patient with the Elekta Axesse radiosurgery system. The device was supplied by American Shared Hospital Services (ASHS).
October 4, 2011
3D contrast-enhanced MRA enters clinical practice
By Erik L. Ridley
Evidence is mounting that low-dose 3D contrast-enhanced MR angiography (CE-MRA) is both practical and reproducible in the carotids, chest, abdomen, and lower extremities, and may reduce the risk of dose-dependent patient complications.
October 4, 2011
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fMRI finds brain's hate connection
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
With the help of functional MRI (fMRI), researchers have found that depression frequently affects three regions of the brain, which, in turn, can trigger a person's feelings of hate, according to a study published on 4 October in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
October 4, 2011
Austrian research focuses on obese kids' knee damage
By Rebekah Moan
Morbidly obese children and adolescents show major abnormalities in their knee cartilage, but whether obesity alone is the causal factor of these changes remains to be determined, according to a prospective study published online in European Radiology.
October 4, 2011
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Europe's brain disorder bill hits 800 billion euros
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters) - The annual cost of brain disorders in Europe has soared to 798 billion euros ($1 trillion U.S.) and the region is facing a political, social, and financial "ticking bomb" as more people fall prey to mental illnesses, researchers said on Tuesday.
October 4, 2011
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Software solutions provide vision of future in Valencia
By Frances Rylands-Monk
New software will soon provide automatic tumor measurements for gold-standard therapy planning at one of Spain's top hospitals. In the longer term, instant evaluation of tumor necrosis in follow-up should be feasible, for timely treatment tailoring once therapy is under way.
October 3, 2011
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