Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.
The law reflects growing interest in using existing imaging studies to identify cardiovascular disease risk without requiring additional scans, radiation exposure or costs.
New research could provide useful information for cancer registries and potentially help policymakers better evaluate screening outcomes to develop more effective guidelines.
Former SCCT president Ed Nicol, MD, knows there has been interest in the potential of automated CT exams. However, he isn't so sure they are possible at this point in time for a number of reasons.
Collaborative institutional guidelines can assist in clinical decision making and reduce unnecessary imaging utilization for ovarian cysts on follow-up, according to results of a study published online March 4 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Adjunct ultrasound has gone up against adjunct tomosynthesis and come out on top, the former beating the latter at incremental breast-cancer detection in women with dense breasts while avoiding recalls for false positives at a similar clip, according to a study published online March 9 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Once inside a pregnant woman’s bloodstream, the Zika virus appears capable of afflicting her developing baby not just with micocephaly, as feared and widely speculated, but also with other congenital abnormalities and harsh effects, including injury to the central nervous system and death, according to a study published online March 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Emergency imagers can cut CT radiation dose by more than 85 percent and still produce diagnostic images that reliably identify patients with acute flank pain who, as suspected, need intervention within 90 days for calculi in the urinary system, according to a study posted ahead of print in Radiology.
Breast density software programs from different vendors can reach conflicting conclusions when categorizing breast tissues as either “dense” or “non-dense” under current BI-RADS guidelines and can differ from traditional visual assessments from radiologists, according to results of a study published online in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
