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Can use of other cancer screening tests boost uptake of LCS?

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This group was also classified by whether it met the USPSTF's 2016 breast cancer screening and 2021 criteria for colorectal cancer screening. Could the use of preventive health tests such as breast and colorectal cancer screening boost uptake of lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose CT (LDCT)?

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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Perry Pickhardt, MD, University of Wisconsin -- Madison Turning up in the category of Most Influential Radiology Researcher isn't new for Perry Pickhardt, MD -- he won the category last year and in 2016. Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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MRI radiomics shows potential in determining breast cancer HER2 status

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Researchers led by Yuqin Peng from Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong found that their nomogram based on MRI radiomics can distinguish HER2-zero from HER2-low or HER2-positives cancers, as well as HER2-low from HER2-positive cancers. The women underwent breast MRI between 2016 and 2022.

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EVT appears underused in certain stroke patients

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hospitals between 2016 and 2020. In this study, patients hospitalized with ischemic stroke and cardiac intervention may be less than half as likely to receive EVT as those without cardiac intervention,” the group wrote. Yet data remain sparse on the use of EVT in these settings, the group noted. years old; 50.2%

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PET/MRI may help diagnose fevers of unknown origin

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In a study that included 104 patients, PET/MRI provided high sensitivity and specificity for determining underlying causes, especially in patients with elevated C-reactive protein, a blood biomarker of inflammation, according to lead author Tomas Rohan, MD, of University Hospital Brno in Brno, Czechia. “To

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Pediatric PET radiotracer doses drop by a third over two decades

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To quantify these developments, the group analyzed administered doses in 243 children and adolescents who underwent 466 clinical F-18 FDG-PET/CT or PET/MRI scans of the body at their hospital between January 2000 and May 2021.

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Repeated head impacts put football players at dementia risk

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A team led by Leonard Jung, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, reported that these athletes had larger PVS volume compared with the unexposed group -- a finding that was associated with poor cognitive performance. The results were published August 26 in JAMA Network Open. The study included 224 male participants.

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