Screening mammography is a reasonable surveillance tool for breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy and breast reconstruction with autologous myocutaneous flaps (AMFs), according to new research published in Radiology. Mammography provides little additional value, however, if the patient had reconstruction after a prophylactic mastectomy.

Children who undergo radiation therapy as part of their treatment for medulloblastoma—the most common malignant brain tumor in young patients—are less likely to recall the specifics of recent personal events, according to a study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience. The patients’ pre-radiation memories remained intact.

Amyloid PET could be a useful diagnostic tool for patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or suspected Alzheimer’s, according to a study published this summer in JAMA Neurology, yielding changes in diagnosis, treatment decisions and physician confidence regardless if scan results are positive or negative.

Fox Chase Cancer Center, part of the Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, has received a grant for $673,000 from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop an improved method for screening for lung cancer.

Stanford researchers are redefining the effort to catch osteoarthritis early with a combination of MRI and PET imaging, opening the field up to more noninvasive options for evaluating bone health, according to a study published online in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Foundation and Canon Medical Systems have announced this year’s two recipients of grants from the Safety FiRsT program.

The office of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has won a lawsuit against Breast Cancer Prevention Fund, a charity that said it was raising money for cancer research and turned out to be one giant scam.

A locum radiologist working at Mayo University Hospital in Castlebar, Ireland, reportedly failed to read an elderly woman’s CT correctly upon her admission in September 2017, missing a rectal tumor that killed her two weeks later, the Mayo News reported this week.