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Fecal occult blood screening may help reduce colorectal cancer mortality

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 6 - Pilot studies indicate that a population-based approach to guaiac fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) appears likely to reduce colorectal cancer mortality, Scottish researchers report in the April issue of Gut.

April 5, 2009

Virtual colonoscopy CAD finds most cancers

By Eric Barnes

A computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm designed to find polypoid lesions of the colon also does fairly well at finding frank cancers, researchers from the U.K. concluded. But sensitivity varies depending on the system settings and the quality of the prep.

April 2, 2009

ContextVision unveils 3D US enhancement tool

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish image enhancement developer ContextVision will introduce its GOPiCE US ultrasound volumetric filtering software at this week's American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine meeting.

April 1, 2009

German conference yields data compression recommendations

By Erik L. Ridley

Germany is the latest country to benefit from clinical recommendations on the use of lossy compression in radiology, with a recent consensus conference adding its own findings to newly issued research in Canada and the U.K.

March 29, 2009

Automated CT volumetry of lymph nodes gauges treatment response

By Eric Barnes

Cancer patients who respond to neoadjuvant therapy have a better prognosis than nonresponders, of course, but with the exception of FDG-PET, reductions in the size of tumors treated with chemotherapy or radiation have been difficult to gauge using imaging modalities that are capable of delineating the anatomy.

March 26, 2009

VC/AAA screening combo cost-effective in older adults

By Eric Barnes

A new analytic model has found that virtual colonoscopy is a highly cost-effective colon cancer screening method for older adults in the Medicare population, especially when combined with screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), a test performed using the same CT dataset at little additional cost.

March 25, 2009