Archive for the 'Mammography' Category

Digital Breast Imaging

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Ultrasound-guided marker placement improves breast lesion identification

(Radiology Review) For patients with mammographically occult breast lesions, an additional lesion marker placed at needle localization may enable immediate confirmation of lesion excision, according to radiologists at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Interactive use of mammo CAD may improve mass detection

Interactively employing computer-aided detection (CAD) technology while reading mammograms may lead to increased detection of breast masses, according to research from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Two-day APBI breast cancer treatment reported safe and effective

CHICAGO - Is a two-day dose of accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) effective in the long term for patients with early-stage breast cancer? Does it represent a radical treatment improvement as well as offering the potential to slash radiation treatment costs?

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Sunday, December 7th, 2008

New mammo CAD approach lowers false positives

CHICAGO - A new computer-aided detection (CAD) technique shows promise for improving sensitivity for detecting breast masses on mammograms, according to research from the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) in Ann Arbor, MI.

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Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Assessing response to chemotherapy: MRI bests mammography

CHICAGO - MRI proves better than mammography for measuring breast tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to research performed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and eight other U.S. academic institutions for the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) 6657 study.
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008