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AuntMinnie 2015: CMS issues final CT lung cancer screening approval

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Our top article in 2015 reported on the momentous CMS decision on CT lung cancer screening reimbursement. healthcare owing to the vast scope of the disease. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. In a major victory for individuals at high risk for lung cancer, the U.S.

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Clinical practice LCS program finds more disease than NLST

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Over a five-year period, a clinical practice lung cancer screening program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, found more disease than did the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), researchers have reported. It also found more stage IV disease, wrote a team led by Kyle Lafata, PhD. versus 2.4%.

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CT imaging markers flag diabetes, cardiometabolic disease risk

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"The results are encouraging as they demonstrate the potential of expanding the role of CT imaging from conventional disease diagnosis to opportunistic proactive screening," study senior author Seungho Ryu, MD, PhD, also of Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, said in a statement released by the RSNA.

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Triple-negative breast cancers impact female populations differently

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experience a higher incidence of breast cancer from aggressive molecular subtypes, such as triple-negative disease. per year from 2015 to 2019); Hispanic women aged 65 years or older (2.3% To compare, the triple-negative disease incidence remained unchanged among non-Hispanic white women. per year from 2010 to 2016 and 4.3%

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Houston radiologist to pay $8.8M in fraud case

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According to the claim, beginning in 2015, Andrew Gomes , MD, allegedly offered physicians who invested in his clinics returns in dividends if they referred patients for treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani in an August 20 statement.

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PET tracer shows promise in prostate cancer patients

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Moreover, the approach could help detect disease that other effective prostate cancer PET radiotracers may miss, said Heying Duan, MD, a nuclear medicine research scientist at Stanford University, during a November 26 scientific session. Patients were eligible if they were older than 18 and had rising blood levels of PSA ( ≥ 0.2

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Mount Sinai Study Calls for Major Changes in the Way People With Comorbidities Are Selected by Physicians for Lung Cancer Screening

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It was prompted by the fact that smokers have an increased risk of not just lung cancer but complex comorbidities—including cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—from their tobacco exposure. That, the researchers said, is part of the problem.

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