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A new imaging tool?
Mammography is the common way to detect breast cancer. But it’s not perfect: it struggles to image dense glandular tissue or early-stage tumours. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Read more …
CAD improves breast cancer diagnosis
A study recently published in the online version of the American Journal of Roentgenology evaluated the clinical value of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) software in the Read more …
Diagnostic accuracy varies by radiologst
For women with breast symptoms such as lumps, the ability of diagnostic mammograms to detect breast cancer accurately depends strongly on which radiologist reads them, according Read more …
Innovations to improve cost and quality of patient care
“We have a broad set of products and services that enable healthcare providers to improve the quality and cost of patient care,” said Carestream Health’s Chief Executive Officer Read more …
Mammograms or MRI scans?
X-ray based mammograms detect only 56% of early lesions in high risk women compared with 92% when MRI scanning (mostly used for brain scans), according to a study by Christiane Read more …
Dedicated to mammography
Hologic will be one of the biggest exhibitors at the 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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Screening
Switzerland - European experts presented and debates that controversial topic – breast cancer screening programmes – during a September symposium organised by Carestream Health. Read more …
Digital mammography: Higher detection rate for DCIS
The Vestfold County Study, performed by Norwegian researchers, is the first large scale study comparing the results of a particular full-field digital mammography system (FFDM) Read more …
World’s largest gathering of cancer specialists told: Mammography is still key to survival
Rapid diagnosis and treatment are the keys to breast cancer survival – and an elastogram mammography continues to play a central role in breast cancer detection according to Read more …
New technology to reduce biopsies
]Although about 75% of biopsies are negative, the side effects of that invasive procedure, plus the length of time to results, disturbs patients. Now, however, a new technology Read more …
Tissue elasticity reveals tumours
When equally compressed, the tissue and structure of tumours and inflammations are harder than normal tissue. Hitachi explains that, taking advantage of these alterations, the Read more …
Ireland Pulling into Europe’s fast lane for digital screening
In Ireland, breast cancer is particularly virulent: 18.5% of all cancer related deaths among the women are due to breast cancer.
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3D USCT nears reality
Back in the 70s, when scientists first speculated on the development of 3-D ultrasound computed tomography (3-D USCT) the available technology could not equal their dreams. Now, Read more …
Hospital group streamlines screening
Italy – One of the biggest RIS/PACS implementations in Europe is being co-ordinated the Area Vasta Centro (AVC) group, which runs 12 hospitals in central Tuscany. Among these, CPA Read more …
Why MRI should not be a health-political decision
During the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) congress, the paper of Professor Christiane K Kuhl* and her colleagues has been selected as ‘Best of ASCO’ , for Read more …
Buzz words: digital mammography
Full field digital mammography (FFDM) and computed radiography (CR) based mammography systems may bring hospitals and breast imaging services closer to gaining digital Read more …
CTLM for cancer detection in dense breasts
Paolo Belli MD, Carmen Malaspina MD and Professor Lorenzo Bonomo, of the Department of Radiology, UCSC, Policlinico A. Gemelli, Rome, discuss results from using computed Read more …
Greater bonding of radiation oncologists and diagnostic radiologists sought by RSNA
Radiation oncologists and diagnostic radiologists will be encouraged to forge partnerships at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) congress in Chicago this November Read more …
Radiofrequency ablation in breast cancer
By Beate M Stoeckelhuber MD, Associate Professor and Radiology (Interim) Director at the Department of Radiology, Luebeck University, Germany, with Smaragda Kapsimalakou MD, also Read more …
Revealing the breast’s architecture
2D imaging - whether analogue or digital - is thought to miss detection of 20-30% of breast cancers. Early clinical results from studies using the new technology tomosynthesis Read more …
Tomorrow’s imaging on today’s horizon
‘Tomosynthesis is a hot topic in all the companies involved in mammography’, Professor Danielsson pointed out. ‘But whereas they are developing more or less the same thing, Sectra Read more …
Devlin respond to growing demand in Europe for infection control products, offering their “CleanKey” infection control keyboard in a variety of European languages. …
Knowing that good hygiene practice is critical to the prevention of cross contamination, New Style Healthcare services are introducing a range of unique hospital furniture to the …
To fight hospital infections and increasingly resistant bacteria Normeditec has developed Toul Mobile Laminar Airflow …
bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics (IVD), offers the most comprehensive diagnostic solution on the market to help hospitals and healthcare …
