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.
Five score and 20 years ago this week—or six score flat, if you prefer—the word went out from William Roentgen’s lab to the world. The publicity came courtesy of an Austrian newspaper.
According to a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the use of chest CT in hospital emergency departments (ED) to evaluate respiratory symptoms significantly jumped from 2001 to 2010.
A study of more than 2,500 women has found ultrasound just as good as mammography at detecting breast cancer. On the downside, ultrasound generated more false positives than mammography.
There is sufficient existing literature on which to base clinical decision rules separating patients with apparently minor but clinically serious head trauma—and thus in need of CT neuroimaging and prompt clinical intervention—from similarly alert and responsive head-trauma patients who would be better off avoiding the radiation exposure and the costs.
The pluck of an Italian 3D mammography engineer who works for GE in France has caught the eye of a Forbes.com contributing writer in the U.K. who describes his journalism niche as covering “amazing tech and the people inventing it.”
That old saying "jack of all trades, master of none" can be applied to medical imaging. Even the bright minds that make up the radiology workforce need focused training and years of specific experience in order to understand all the intricacies of the profession, and there's one area in particular where specialized expertise is particularly valuable: mammography.
Architectural distortion, the non-mass but potentially ominous clinical feature observed in many breast imaging procedures, is less likely to signal malignancy when it’s detected on screening mammography rather than diagnostic mammography or when it does not correlate with a subsequent targeted ultrasound exam.
Screening mammography of women in their 40s based solely on risk as flagged by extremely dense breasts, very strong family history or both would lead to much higher mortality on the heels of more than 75 percent fewer screen-detected cancers in this group.
