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Ultrasound detects more cancers in high-risk women with dense breasts

AuntMinnie

Supplemental breast ultrasound may have utility in imaging women with dense breasts and high risk of advanced or invasive breast cancer, a study published August 6 in Radiology found. Sample images show cancer detection at supplemental ultrasound screening after screening mammography with a negative result. (A)

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What has radiology learned in 5 years since COVID hit U.S.?

AuntMinnie

While services for breast and lung cancer screening were temporarily halted, imagers in x-ray, lung ultrasound, and PET/CT were busy examining patients who presented with COVID-19. The guidelines included best practices for imaging with CT versus chest x-ray in diagnosing COVID, as well as whether imaging is necessary at all in some cases.

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Susan G. Komen applauds breast imaging legislation in Penn.

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Gina Curry (D-Delaware) and would eliminate costs for women for supplemental imaging such as breast MRIs and ultrasounds. When a mammogram reveals an abnormality or an individual is at a higher risk of breast cancer, diagnostic and supplemental imaging is required to determine if the patient needs a biopsy. Komen, in a news release.

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Advocates, researchers herald federal breast density notification law

AuntMinnie

While her mammogram yielded negative results, a subsequent ultrasound found breast cancer. Two barriers include access to follow-up imaging such as MRI and ultrasound, and insurance coverage for supplemental imaging. It is so much easier to implement because it can generally be a software upgrade to a mammography machine.

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Abbreviated MRI suitable in subsequent screening of dense breasts

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(B) Axial subtracted contrast-enhanced fat-suppressed T1-weighted image from a subsequent-round abbreviated MRI examination performed two years later shows a new 5-mm enhancing mass in the upper outer right breast (arrow), which was not seen on a mammogram performed five months prior. The exam was assessed as BI-RADS category 5. PPV2 21.3%

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CEM improves breast cancer detection rate over low-energy mammography

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A team led by Joao Horvat, MD, from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York found that CEM depicted 90% of breast cancers compared with 10% on low-energy mammograms alone and 50% on low-energymammogramswith whole-breast ultrasound. RSNA The team identified nine screen-detected cancers diagnosed in eight women.

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First breast cancer factors impact mammo's ability to find future ones

AuntMinnie

A team led by Julie Hamzah, MBBS, from Singapore General Hospital, found that symptomatic first breast cancers, dense breasts, and the presence of trabecular thickening on mammography are tied to mammogram detection failure of ipsilateral second breast cancers.

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