The past several years have seen the development of a de facto stealth campaign against screening mammography. “Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms,” the New York Times bullhorned in 2014. “Why Getting a Mammogram May Cause More Trouble Than It’s Worth,” a Prevention headline blared in 2016. “It’s Time to End Mammograms, Some Experts Say,” trumpeted Time this past December. All of this is fueled, of course, by the never-ending disputes over guidelines issued by numerous authoritative groups.

A shortage of senior radiologists is affecting cancer care in the U.K., according to a new report from the BBC.

A primary care physician in New York has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a patient during a breast cancer screening in September 2017.

Larger doses of radiotherapy have been linked to hormone deficiencies in young patients treated for brain tumors, according to research published Aug. 17 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic have discovered a new subtype of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to research published in Lancet Neurology. These findings, they said, highlight the importance of developing more sensitive imaging techniques for real-time evaluations of brain pathology.

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.

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.

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.