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Mobile breast screening initiative tours the UAE

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A mobile breast screening program led by nurses from New Zealand will travel to all seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 21 February to 2 March, according to a report in the National, an English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi.

February 7, 2019

French find self-compression works well for mammography

By Kate Madden Yee

Self-compression for mammography produces comparable results to radiographer-controlled compression -- and it seems to mitigate the pain some women experience, according to a French study published online on 4 February in JAMA Internal Medicine.

February 4, 2019

Screen for pancreatic cancer at same time as breast MRI

By Kate Madden Yee

Women carrying the BRCA mutation who undergo regular screening breast MRI also can be screened for pancreatic cancer using a rapid protocol that takes just 10 minutes, according to a study published online on 28 January in European Radiology.

February 4, 2019

Report: Health screening in England falls short of targets

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast, bowel, and cervical cancer screening programs in England have all failed to meet their targets in 2018, according to a report published on 1 February 2019 by the National Audit Office.

February 3, 2019

6 vital steps to ensure success in breast screening

By Dr. Ruud Pijnappel, PhD

Screening for breast cancer works, but it requires a solid infrastructure, consisting of rigorous training and education, monitoring, auditing, and continuous adjustment, Dr. Ruud Pijnappel, PhD, from the Netherlands told delegates on the second day of the Total Radiology conference at Arab Health 2019.

January 29, 2019

Digital breast tomosynthesis wins support in Middle East

By Dr. Nehad Kazim Albastaki

In daily clinical practice, digital breast tomosynthesis offers real and important benefits over conventional 2D mammography, Dr. Nehad Kazim Albastaki from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, told delegates on the opening day of the Total Radiology conference at Arab Health 2019.

January 27, 2019

Screening mammo critic Gotzsche to start new institute

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Long-time mammography screening critic Dr. Peter Gøtzsche plans to start a new organization called the Institute for Scientific Freedom, according to a news item published online January 11 in the BMJ.

January 14, 2019

Mammography screening in England hits new low

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast cancer screening fell to a new low in England in 2017 as nearly 800,000 women declined invitations to receive mammograms, according to a 20 December report in the Daily Mail.

December 19, 2018

False positives boost a woman's breast cancer risk

By Kate Madden Yee

Women who have a false-positive result on a screening mammography exam have twice the risk of being diagnosed with a screen-detected or interval breast cancer later compared with women with a negative result, according to a Spanish-led study published on 19 December in the British Journal of Cancer.

December 18, 2018

Adding CAD to DBT can cut reading time by 14%

By Kate Madden Yee

The addition of computer-aided detection (CAD) to digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) interpretation can reduce reading time by 14% -- for both beginner and experienced readers, according to a study published online on 13 December in European Radiology.

December 17, 2018

U.K. team to conduct personalized breast screening study

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Researchers from Loughborough University in Leicestershire, U.K., plan to conduct a study investigating whether personalized breast cancer screening is a better option for women between the ages of 40 and 70.

December 16, 2018

U.K. review finds only 5K women missed breast screening

By Brian Casey

An independent review of the recent U.K. breast screening debacle has found that only 5,000 women actually missed invitations to screening appointments, down sharply from the 450,000 originally estimated. The review panel also noted that U.K. public health authorities initially overstated the magnitude of the problem, causing unnecessary anxiety among women.

December 13, 2018

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