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Breast Cancer
Better images for X-ray mammography with new tool
Fighting breast cancer is always a race against time - early detection of breast carcinoma an essential condition for cure. Now Scientists from Finland, Germany and France Read more …
Breast cancer: new method is more effective than mammography in women with dense breasts
“Molecular breast imaging” (MBI), a new scintigraphy method developed by US researchers, might improve early detection of breast cancer in women with dense breasts. The results of Read more …
Young woman underrepresented in breast cancer studies
More than 250,000 women under the age of forty are living with the disease in the US and 11,000 will be diagnosed in the next year. Even so, young women are underrepresented in Read more …
Every or every second year doesn’t make a difference
Researchers compared the Norwegian organised population based mammogram screening every second year and a physician- or self-referrals annual test in the US. Both are equally Read more …
Herceptin destroys breast cancer stem cells
The HER2 gene causes a very aggressive kind of breast cancer. It influences the number of cancer stem cells and therefore as well the spreading of metastases. The University of Read more …
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 …
Fujifilm’s digital mammo goes mobile
Fujifilm Medical Systems USA, based in Stamford, Connecticut, reports that it’s CR for mammography (FCRm), a full-field digital mammography system, is now available for use in Read more …
New Optical Breast Imaging System
Advanced Research Technologies Inc. ("ART") announced the first sale of SoftScan® optical breast imaging system to the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Read more …
Screening
Switzerland - European experts presented and debates that controversial topic – breast cancer screening programmes – during a September symposium organised by Carestream Health. Read more …
A website for breast cancer patients
For women (or friends and relatives of women with breast cancer), 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 …
Steep drop in breast cancer rates
USA – A steep drop in breast cancer rates between 2002 and 2003 correlates with the decline in hormone therapy use, according to research froma the American Cancer Society (ACS). 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 …