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Late-stage breast cancer incidence increasing in U.S. women

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women, with an annual percentage change (APC) of 1.16% (p Late-stage disease increased consistently for women aged 20 to 39 years with an APC of 2.91% (p For women aged 40 to 74 years, the late-stage breast cancer incidence rate increased with an APC of 2.10% between 2004 and 2010 (p = 0.002) and an APC of 2.73% between 2018 and 2021 (p = 0.01).

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fMRI reveals a brain circuit for creativity

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Kutsche's group conducted a review that assessed 36 fMRI brain imaging studies published between 2004 and 2019; these works included data from 857 healthy patients and revealed 415 brain coordinates activated by creativity tasks such as drawing, creative writing, and making music.

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Private equity firm acquires medical imaging equipment supplier from Philips

Radiology Business

Agito Medical was first founded in 2004 and acquired by the Amsterdam-based original equipment manufacturer in 2018.

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Private equity firm acquiring teleradiology outfit for $336M

Radiology Business

Founded in 2004, Medica employs 400-plus providers working across 100 hospitals and completing 1.5M radiology reports annually.

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Racial, ethnic representation increases over time in NCDB

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They assessed individuals in both databases diagnosed with breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer in two periods: 2004 to 2006 and 2017 to 2019. The team included data from 5,175,007 individuals. Of these, 0.5% were American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.1%

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Beware risk of adverse events associated with GBCAs

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They investigated these indicators prompted by the following four GBCAs between 2004 and 2022, using the U.S. Wang and colleagues sought to investigate the "risk signals" of various GBCAs (that is, information that points to risk of adverse effects from the agent).

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Can customized reader pairing boost mammo double reading performance?

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They used retrospective data with reading outcomes from breast cancer screening programs in Sweden (2008 to 2015), England (2012 to 2014), and Norway (2004 to 2018). In total, the team included data from 3,592,414 mammography exams. This included 965,263 exams from Sweden, 837,048 exams from England, and 1,790,103 exams from Norway.