Mammography

Digital mammography use has resulted in 3-fold increase in high-risk breast lesions rate; potential oversurveillance, overtreatment.

Clinicians should view screening MRI-detected breast lesions that change with suspicion and do further testing.

Women who miss regular mammography may be diagnosed with later stage breast cancer than women who undergo regular annual screenings.

Optical metabolic imaging may not only identify breast cancer subtypes, but may also detect early breast cancer treatment responses.

New site helps answer questions regarding breast density notification, and efficacy, benefits, and harms of supplementary screening tests.

Breast lesions rated as category 3 (BI-RADS) on ultrasound could wait 12 months for re-evaluation.

Women with breast cancer who undergo preoperative MRI have a higher rate of bilateral mastectomies and contralateral prophylactic mastectomies than women who aren’t scanned.

Women with some breast tissue abnormalities may avoid surgery if they undergo yearly mammograms plus MRI and ultrasound to monitor for changes.

Digital tomosynthesis results in fewer false positives and reduces recall rates, but has higher radiation doses than mammography.

Mammography recall rates may be influenced by factors outside of radiologists’ control, and rates might not be a great measure of quality.

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Siemens Healthcare has received FDA clearance for their MAMMOMAT Inspiration Prime Edition lower dose mammography system.

Digital chest tomosynthesis used as a screening tool for lung cancer shows comparable rates of detection to low-dose CT.

Digital breast tomosynthesis for breast cancer screening reduces recall rates and biopsies, and detects more cancers.

Maryland became the seventh state to enact breast density patient notification laws.

Digital radiography (mammography) detects as many breast cancers as screen film mammography and more cancers than computed radiography.

Dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI is a useful tool in aiding detection of residual disease following excisional biopsy for breast cancer.

Electronic bone suppression programs used in addition to CAD allow radiologists to detect more lung nodules than with chest X-rays alone.

Integrating 2D and 3D screening increases breast cancer detection and may lower reports of false positives.

Screening mammograms enhanced by CAD trigger more false alarms than non-CAD screenings and detect more early cancers that may never have needed treatment.

Better communication between radiologists and patients undergoing image-guided breast biopsies results in lower anxiety before and after the procedure.

CAD with chest X-ray to screen for lung cancer may reveal abnormalities, but more study is required.