AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2024

ChatGPT demonstrates modest accuracy when assigning BI-RADS scores for mammograms and breast ultrasound exams, according to research published October 30 in Clinical Imaging. Finally, both models achieved higher accuracy for mammograms at 67.6% compared with 55.6 % for ultrasound images. and 0.68, respectively.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2024

Cryoablation uses imaging guidance typically with ultrasound or CT to locate tumors. Follow-up imaging was performed after the procedure by mammogram, ultrasound, or in some cases contrast-enhanced mammogram or MRI, based on patient eligibility and preference.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Mortazavi and colleagues evaluated data from 23 women who presented with axillary adenopathy on mammography, breast ultrasound, or breast MRI after being vaccinated for COVID-19 between December 2020 and February 2021. Ultrasound from diagnostic work-up performed seven days later showed no change in lymph node size.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breast density can often obscure lesions on conventional x-ray mammography, and so other screening modalities such as MRI or ultrasound are often recommended for follow-up. CEM is faster and less costly than MRI and can often be used as a follow-up to an abnormal screening mammogram when it is clinically appropriate.

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The Radiology Clinic

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Amidst the battle against this disease, screening mammograms emerge as a crucial tool in early detection and effective treatment. In this blog, we delve into the significance of screening mammograms, their procedure, their benefits, and why they are essential for women’s health. What is a Screening Mammogram?

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

MARCH 29, 2024

The reduction for the bilateral mammogram 77066 was 1.36%, reflecting an increase in RVU valuation that somewhat offsets the conversion factor cut. Effect on professional component reimbursement The single-view chest x-ray 71045 professional fee was cut 5.55%.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Previous studies have demonstrated that dense breast tissue masks breast cancers on mammography, and that supplemental imaging such as ultrasound and MRI confirms suspicious findings within dense tissue. Radiologists have studied and continue to research how breast density plays into breast cancer risk. The study can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 21, 2024

The retrospective study included data collected between 2007 and 2019 from 4,150 women in this age range who underwent 4,448 screening mammograms. Images of a 39-year-old woman shows a grade 2 invasive ductal carcinoma on mammography, confirmed by supplementary ultrasound.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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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AuntMinnie

MARCH 10, 2025

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. Horvat and co-authors investigated whether the same trend goes for CEM.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

Researchers led by Derek Nguyen, MD, from Duke University in Durham, NC, found that for architectural distortions found by DBT alone with no ultrasound correlate, the malignancy rate was 0% for distortions without atypia versus 20% for distortions with atypia on core needle biopsy. No ultrasound correlate was identified (not shown).

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Dense Breast Info (DBI) has issued a statement of support for “Find It Early Act” HR 3086, a bill that addresses insurance barriers to breast cancer screening beyond an initial mammogram. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require that women be informed after their mammograms whether their breasts are “dense” or “not dense.”

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A) Craniocaudal mammogram of the right breast does not show any lesion. (B) B) The malignant lesion corresponds with a 7-cm irregular and spiculated mass on the left craniocaudal mammogram. Ultrasound-guided core-needle biopsy revealed grade 2 invasive lobular carcinoma. (C)

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 16, 2023

(A) A craniocaudal two-dimensional synthetic mammogram of the right breast shows an irregular mass in the medial breast with pleomorphic calcifications extending posteriorly. (B) B) A craniocaudal magnified mammogram more clearly shows the irregular mass and pleomorphic calcifications in the medial breast. (C)

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Imaging Technology

JULY 2, 2024

mtaschetta-millane Tue, 07/02/2024 - 09:50 July 2, 2024 — Delphinus Medical Technologies , a pioneering medical imaging company that developed the SoftVue Breast Ultrasound Tomography (UST), announced today the publication of a study comparing mammography in conjunction with SoftVue UST vs mammography alone in women with dense breasts.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 30, 2024

What’s more, the USPSTF concluded that there was insufficient evidence to recommend supplemental screening with MRI or ultrasound in women, regardless of breast density. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirement that all women having mammograms receive notice that their breasts are dense or not dense.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

House Bill 2411 was introduced in the state by Representative David Cook (R-Globe) and includes eliminating costs for patients for MRI, ultrasound, and diagnostic mammograms. However, out-of-pocket costs for patients can range from $234 for a diagnostic mammogram to more than $1,000 for a breast MRI, according to the organization.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 22, 2024

(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.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 28, 2023

milla1cf Fri, 07/28/2023 - 23:31 July 28, 2023 — Findings from an accepted manuscript published in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) suggest that for patients with dense breasts undergoing screening in the incidence setting, a commercial AI tool did not provide additional benefit to mammography with supplementary ultrasound (US).

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 27, 2023

Read more on AuntMinnie.com Related Reading: PET tracer uptake related to COVID-19 vaccines detected in lymphoma patients F-18 FDG lymph node uptake assessed in vaccinated COVID-19 patients Women benefit from scheduling mammograms around COVID vaccine Ultrasound finds swollen glands on patients after COVID-19 vaccine

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Delaney Radiology

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The American Cancer Society recommends starting annual mammogram screenings at age 40. Mammogram Screening Mammogram: Screening mammograms take 2 or more images of each breast. Diagnostic Mammogram: Diagnostic Mammograms are ordered for a variety of reasons and may assess one or both breasts.

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J Gershon Breast Imaging

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Screening breast ultrasounds, in addition to mammograms, save lives. Beginning today, all U.S. women will receive standardized information regarding their breast density. If you have dense breast tissue, be aware and be active.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 16, 2024

From each patient, the model extracted 4,096 features from mammograms and selected six related features according to the relationship between tumor size determination and lymph node metastasis. The image is available for use under a Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International.

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TRA Medical Imaging

MARCH 27, 2023

What’s the difference between Screening and Diagnostic Mammogram? During a diagnostic mammogram, the images are analyzed in real-time. During a diagnostic mammogram, the images are analyzed in real-time. Sometimes additional mammogram images are taken.

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

MARCH 27, 2023

When 53-year-old photographer and single mom Pia Navales went to the Berkeley Outpatient Center for her annual mammogram in December 2021, she had no reason to suspect any problems. The mammogram identified three masses on her left breast.

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Pure Mammography

JULY 14, 2021

This breast surgery is often performed long before a woman needs her first mammogram , which means that the topic of breast implants’ effects on necessary screenings is rarely discussed before breast augmentation is performed. How often do I need a mammogram? Mammograms should be scheduled every 1 to 2 years until at least age 75.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Topics include the following: Lunit's AI model combines new and existing AI algorithms to filter normal chest radiographs from the radiology workload An exploration of the accuracy and robustness of Lunit's Insight MMG compared with radiologist readers Lunit's AI model tracks mammographic parenchymal patterns as predictive markers for breast cancer (..)

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Clermont Radiology

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Maybe you have recently moved, changed doctors, or have new insurance and now, are going to a different imaging center for your annual mammogram. Either way, the new imaging center will very often request that you provide the images from your previous mammograms. In this case, the radiologist may recommend a diagnostic mammogram.

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Capitol Imaging Services

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Capitol Imaging Services has served tens of thousands of women with our women’s health examinations in screening mammography, diagnostic mammography, ultrasound, bone density studies, breast MRI and breast biopsy. For screening mammograms, we ask for about 20 minutes of a woman’s time. Convenient.

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MedImaging Ultrasound

JULY 31, 2023

Researchers have developed a wearable ultrasound device that can detect tumors in their early stages and could particularly benefit patients at a high risk of developing breast cancer between routine mammograms.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 11, 2025

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. Her team employed a tracking mechanism for patients who were due for their mammograms once screening operations resumed.

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J Gershon Breast Imaging

MAY 10, 2023

While this is an improvement over the prior recommendation to begin screening at age 50, it falls short of the current recommendation by the Society of Breast Imaging and the American College of Radiology to obtain annual mammograms beginning at age 40. Concern for radiation risk due to annual screening is really of no concern!

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From the CEM exams, the team defined "low-energy" images as the equivalent of a 2D full-field digital mammogram. Subsequent targeted ultrasound showed a 0.5-cm cm irregular hypoechoic mass (not shown) for which ultrasound-guided biopsy showed invasive carcinoma, with a 1.2-mm

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Mammography Educators

MAY 4, 2022

R)(M) BS, CBEC, FNCBC, Breast Imaging Consultant Quite often you will hear that the primary disadvantage of breast ultrasound is that it's extremely user dependent and takes a long time to perform using handheld transducers. Therefore, it makes sense to have Mammo Techs performing breast ultrasounds, as well as mammograms.

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Ben White

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Why would you want to read plain films or thyroid ultrasounds if there are screening mammograms or negative headache brain MRIs ripe for the taking? If you are being paid extra to produce more numbers then why would you want to talk to a clinician on the phone if you could have read another scan during the same amount of time?

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