Abdominal Imaging: Page 25

CEUS characterizes incidental liver lesions on CT, MRI

By Erik L. Ridley

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can effectively characterize solid focal liver lesions detected as incidental findings in the noncirrhotic liver, potentially avoiding the need for biopsy, according to research from the University of Trieste in Italy.

January 27, 2011

Colon cancer incidence drops sharply after colonoscopy

By Eric Barnes

Colonoscopy is associated with substantial reductions in colorectal cancer incidence, according to a new study. Colonoscopy reduced cancer risk by 77% overall, and in contrast to other recent studies, it protected both the left and right sides of the colon.

January 9, 2011

Cancer survival rates lower in U.K., Denmark: study

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Survival rates for four major cancers diagnosed between 1995 and 2007 are higher in Australia, Canada, and Sweden than in Britain and Denmark, according to an international study published on Wednesday.

December 22, 2010

Second-reader CAD improves VC sensitivity

By Eric Barnes

Computer-aided detection (CAD) works best in virtual colonoscopy when human readers do their job first, according to a new study. The use of CAD as a second reader improved both per-patient and per-polyp detection, while running CAD concurrently with the initial read was less effective.

December 13, 2010

Changing patient positions during colonoscopy improves lesion detection rate

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When patients make sequential position changes during colonoscopy examinations, the improvement in luminal distension leads to detection of more adenomas and polyps, a U.K. team has shown.

November 8, 2010

Colorectal cancer biomarkers less sensitive in real-world screening

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Blood-based colorectal cancer markers might be less sensitive in a real-world screening program than what's been reported in the literature, say the authors of a new systematic review.

October 26, 2010

SIGGAR trial results a win-win for virtual colonoscopy

By Eric Barnes

BOSTON - A decade-long colorectal cancer screening initiative involving more than a dozen radiologists and thousands of patients across the U.K. delivered positive early results at this week's International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy.

October 26, 2010

Healthy life could prevent 23% of colon cancers

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters) - Getting people to eat a healthy diet, not smoke, cut down on alcohol, and exercise more could prevent almost a quarter of the some 1.2 million cases of colon cancer diagnosed each year, scientists said on Wednesday.

October 26, 2010

Low-dose aspirin lowers colon cancer risk: study

By Reuters Health

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Low doses of aspirin taken to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes can also lower the risk of colon cancer, British researchers reported today in the Lancet.

October 21, 2010

MDS Nordion touts TheraSphere study

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

MDS Nordion announced that the first large European study using yttrium-90 glass microspheres has been published on the use of TheraSphere, a radioembolization therapy for the localized treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma or primary liver cancer.

October 7, 2010

Advanced VC tool serves up polyp locations for colonoscopy

By Eric Barnes

Large polyps found at virtual colonoscopy are referred to optical colonoscopy for removal, and that's generally the end of the story. But VC-detected polyps can't always be found quickly and easily at colonoscopy, so an automated method of finding them might be just what the gastroenterologist ordered.

September 16, 2010

Aycan teams with SOVAmed

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiology informatics firm Aycan Medical Systems and SOVAmed are collaborating on medical postprocessing technology and the companies' first joint project, SOVA.evar.

September 13, 2010

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