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Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound in Intracranial Diseases

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Food and Drug Administration has approved this technology for the treatment of essential tremor and Parkinson's disease, and its indications are expanding to include various intracranial diseases. High-intensity FUS is a safe and effective treatment for various intracranial diseases.

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Benign breast disease found on percutaneous biopsy ups cancer risk

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Benign breast disease diagnosed through percutaneous biopsy increases the overall risk of developing breast cancer, according to research published December 13 in JAMA Surgery. Benign breast disease makes up about 75% of breast biopsy diagnoses. The study included data from 4,819 women with a median age of 51.

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Upstaging Rates, Management Strategies for Radial Scars on Screening DBT

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Bahl and AJR coauthor Claire Crowley , MB, BCh, BAO, MSc, studied patients who underwent CNB showing radial scar after screening digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and digital mammography (DM) (January 1, 2013–December 31, 2020). Patients without surgical excision or at least 2 years of imaging follow-up after CNB were excluded.

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Treatment paradigm shifting for men with prostate cancer

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There is no cure for the disease, with treatments designed to prolong the lives of patients. The bottom line is that if I’m dealing with a gentleman who has primarily bone disease, Xofigo might actually be a very good option and it can be done before or after Pluvicto,” she said. Now there’s Pluvicto, she said.

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AI With Volumetric Thresholds Facilitate Opportunistic Screening for Splenomegaly

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A secondary cohort of 104 patients (62 men, 42 women; mean age, 56 years) with end-stage liver disease underwent pre-liver transplant CT from January 2011 to May 2013. Pickhardt et al.’s

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ECR: 3 tips for developing a successful cardiac imaging practice

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He noted that in 2019, the European Society of Cardiology issued updated guidelines for diagnostic imaging of coronary artery disease (CAD), recommending noninvasive imaging (i.e., vs. 1.9%) as well as an increase in the demand for noninvasive imaging for the diagnosis of CAD between 2013 and 2017 across all cardiac imaging modalities.

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American Cancer Society Releases Updated Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines

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The guideline, last updated in 2013, is published in the ACS flagship journal, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. However, lung cancer mainly occurs in older people, as most people diagnosed with the disease are aged 65 or older. Anyone at any age can get lung cancer.