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Excitement builds over digital breast tomosynthesis
By Rebekah Moan
VIENNA - Will digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) replace mammography for breast cancer screening? The answer depends on how well the modality performs in some forthcoming clinical trials, according to two experts in Sunday's special focus session at ECR 2013.
March 9, 2013
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Including menopause as factor aids breast US performance
By Rebekah Moan
VIENNA - Menopause has an important influence on breast elasticity as measured by elasticity parameters, according to study results presented this week at ECR 2013. Taking this factor into consideration may help improve the diagnostic performance of breast sonoelastography, the researchers found.
March 8, 2013
Debate ignites over breast MRI's added value
By Philip Ward
VIENNA - Researchers from the Netherlands found that 3-tesla breast MRI of mammographically detected microcalcifications is of added diagnostic value, but only by expert radiologists, according to a presentation during the breast scientific session on Thursday at ECR 2013. However, their findings were challenged by a member of the audience.
March 7, 2013
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IMS presents breast tomosynthesis research at ECR
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Italian women's imaging vendor Internazionale Medico Scientifica (IMS) is highlighting research on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) using its Giotto device at ECR 2013.
March 6, 2013
Breast cancer screening in Austria: A new approach to early detection
By Dr. Oswald Graf
VIENNA - With the exception of some local pilot projects, early breast cancer detection in Austria has depended upon opportunistic breast cancer screening in individual radiology practices. But in October, organized mammography screening will be introduced, utilizing the robust existing infrastructure of local radiology practices. Performing screening exams in locations all over the country should help achieve high rates of participation.
March 6, 2013
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US elastography, contrast-enhanced mammography, MR spectroscopy: Which offers the most promise?
By Rebekah Moan
VIENNA - Mammography is an imperfect modality, so it makes sense that radiologists are on the lookout for something better, or at least something to supplement the technique. Thursday's refresher course covers functional imaging of the breast and goes into detail about ultrasound elastography, contrast-enhanced mammography, and MRI diffusion, perfusion, and spectroscopy, which may supplement mammography or replace it altogether.
March 6, 2013
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Matakina to present Volpara research at ECR
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Breast density software developer Matakina International is highlighting five abstracts to be presented at the upcoming ECR 2013 in Vienna that show that the company's Volpara objective breast density measurement software helps overcome the limitations of mammography for women with dense breasts.
March 5, 2013
Norwegians evaluate psychological impact of mammo recalls
By Rebekah Moan
Recall after mammography is associated with transiently increased anxiety, as might be expected, but Norwegian researchers also found that four weeks after screening the level of anxiety was the same and depression was lower compared with the general population. They reported their findings in the March issue of the European Journal of Cancer.
March 4, 2013
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Standalone mammo CAD uncovers screening misses
By Erik L. Ridley
A breast computer-aided detection (CAD) system can be deployed to improve screening efficacy by independently identifying suspicious nonreferred cases, Dutch researchers have found. A standalone CAD system could have detected more than 10% of breast cancer cases that had been missed at double reading.
March 3, 2013
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Austrians provide boost for digital telemammography
By Cynthia E. Keen
Compared with teleradiology, implementation of telemammography has been held back by vendor-related technical limitations of some diagnostic workstations and lack of affordable data networks capable of transmitting large uncompressed mammography images. Researchers from Vienna have now given a boost to the technology's viability.
February 26, 2013
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UAE hospital expands center for breast imaging
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Mafraq Hospital in Abu Dhabi announced it is expanding the scope of its multimodality breast imaging center by becoming a hub for telemammography exam interpretations.
February 20, 2013
Lung cancer deaths to outstrip breast cancer deaths by 2015
By Rebekah Moan
Driven by smoking, lung cancer is likely to overtake breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death for European women by 2015, according to a study published in Annals of Oncology. In fact, in Poland and the U.K. it already has, the researchers found.
February 17, 2013
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