Life, the universe and medicine – part 4
I had my appointment with the breast team on the 19th July. After being told off by the surgeon for not having mammograms, I was then subjected to the examination itself which was excruciating on my right breast because of the lump. It had already reacted badly to the surgeon’s examination and was definitely not a happy puppy! The radiographer was lovely and gave me a hug afterwards. The ultrasound was just as bad, pressing down with a bar with cold gel on it does nothing to make you feel better! It all came back clear – it was just a cyst and they offered to drain it there and then because of the pain. I, of course ac...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 15, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Thought for the day my story Source Type: news

Life, the universe and medicine – part 4
I had my appointment with the breast team on the 19th July. After being told off by the surgeon for not having mammograms, I was then subjected to the examination itself which was excruciating on my right breast because of the lump. It had already reacted badly to the surgeon’s examination and was definitely not a happy puppy! The radiographer was lovely and gave me a hug afterwards. The ultrasound was just as bad, pressing down with a bar with cold gel on it does nothing to make you feel better! It all came back clear – it was just a cyst and they offered to drain it there and then because of the pain. I, of course ac...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 15, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Life Happiness my story Source Type: news

Life, the universe and medicine – part 4
I had my appointment with the breast team on the 19th July. After being told off by the surgeon for not having mammograms, I was then subjected to the examination itself which was excruciating on my right breast because of the lump. It had already reacted badly to the surgeon’s examination and was definitely not a happy puppy! The radiographer was lovely and gave me a hug afterwards. The ultrasound was just as bad, pressing down with a bar with cold gel on it does nothing to make you feel better! It all came back clear – it was just a cyst and they offered to drain it there and then because of the pain. I, of course ac...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - June 15, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Happiness my story Source Type: news

Life, the universe and medicine – part 1
Like everyone, I assume I’ll live forever. Although I often wonder whether anyone would come to my funeral and who would wear black, it never actually occurrs to me that there is an endpoint. It’s almost as if I would come along too to watch proceedings running smoothly and along the lines I wanted. Death was something I thought about, but in a rather abstract, offhand sort of way. It happened, of course I knew I would die at some point, but that point was somewhere out there … way off from here, where I am now. And then I hit a brick wall. The wall consisted of a tiny little bit of blood coughed up in sink. The ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - April 28, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Emotional Health Happiness Thought for the day Women's Health my story Source Type: news

Life, the universe and medicine – part 1
Like everyone, I assume I’ll live forever. Although I often wonder whether anyone would come to my funeral and who would wear black, it never actually occurrs to me that there is an endpoint. It’s almost as if I would come along too to watch proceedings running smoothly and along the lines I wanted. Death was something I thought about, but in a rather abstract, offhand sort of way. It happened, of course I knew I would die at some point, but that point was somewhere out there … way off from here, where I am now. And then I hit a brick wall. The wall consisted of a tiny little bit of blood coughed up in the sink. ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - April 28, 2020 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Life Happiness my story Source Type: news

Wire-free breast tumor localization improves quality, efficiency, capacity - Sponsor Supplied
For many patients, the most dreaded aspect of breast surgery is the needle...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: Clinical Case Review: Long-term SCOUT® placement prior to surgery Merit Medical to unveil ScoutShare risk model at RSNA 2019 Merit Medical's Wrapsody gains FDA designation Merit Medical posts mixed Q3 results RADAR Localization: Reducing the Burden of Breast Cancer (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 7, 2020 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Team plucks needle from genomic haystack, finding essential transcription factor binding sites
(Children's National Hospital) Using CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens, a multi-institutional research team systematically interrogated the essentiality of more than 10,000 forkhead box protein A1 (FOXA1) and CTCF binding sites in breast and prostate cancer cells, finding that essential FOXA1 binding sites act as enhancers to orchestrate the expression of nearby essential genes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - November 11, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

Why the Women Most Likely to Die of Breast Cancer Have Gotten the Least Attention
How can you have a moonshot trying to cure cancer and not mention people dying of cancer?I believed the narrative that is pushed on women, that if you check your breasts and if you catch it early, you’re fine.ide class="right-rail__container right-rail__container--ad"> Lianne Kraemer had been living with metastatic breast cancer for more than a year when I met her in December 2017 at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio. Throughout the week, more than 7,000 doctors, scientists and pharmaceutical-company representatives would descend on the city for the country’s most important breast-c...
Source: TIME: Health - October 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kate Pickert Tags: Uncategorized Breast Cancer health Source Type: news

Teaching by Touch
The devices and tools used by medical professionals today certainly appear a lot different than from just a short time ago. In general, medical professionals—and their patients—have become much more accepting of smart, data-driven medical technologies that streamline and improve the accuracy of a treatment process. Wearable therapeutic and drug-delivery devices, robotic surgical systems, and telehealth monitoring devices represent some of the many recent advancements that have changed the medical device industry for the better. However, even with the introduction ofÂ&nb...
Source: MDDI - May 6, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Rob Podoloff and  Andy Dambeck Tags: Design Source Type: news

Dune Medical launches first-in-man Smart Biopsy trial
Dune Medical Devices said today that it launched a first-in-man trial of its Smart Biopsy device, touting that the first patients in the trial have already been treated. The first-in-man cases were performed by Dr. Noemi Weissenberg of Kfar Saba, Israel’s Meir Medical Center, the Alpharetta, Ga.-based company said. Dune Medical’s Smart Biopsy system is a percutaneous soft tissue biopsy device that uses miniaturized sensors in the core needle to generate electrical parameters on sampled tissue in real-time. Those electrical signals are compared to histopahtologic findings to improve diagnosis and read-out. ̶...
Source: Mass Device - March 26, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Clinical Trials Diagnostics Dune Medical Devices Inc. Source Type: news

First in Michigan: Self-controlled tissue expanders for breast reconstruction after mastectomy
(Henry Ford Health System) Henry Ford Cancer Institute is the first in Michigan to offer a needle-free, patient-controlled tissue expansion system for women undergoing breast reconstruction after mastectomy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - March 19, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

Smart Biopsy Device Could Diagnose Breast Cancer Using Miniature Radiofrequency Sensors
Normally, when a physician notices a suspicious mass or lesion on a mammogram, he or she will request an ultrasound to explore it further. Based on those results, a biopsy may be performed to determine whether the mass is cancerous. “Unfortunately, right now, in some cases, physicians either overdiagnose or underdiagnose based on that biopsy, because with ultrasound they can only see so much,” said Lori Chmura, CEO of Dune Medical Devices. “The doctor is essentially going in blindly, trying to see what looks like the most suspicious area, and they’re t...
Source: MDDI - March 12, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Susan Shepard Tags: Business Source Type: news

New machine learning method could spare some women from unnecessary breast surgery
(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Dartmouth researchers have developed and evaluated a machine learning approach of using patient core needle biopsy data to identify the risk that atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) breast lesions may upgrade to cancer. This knowledge can potentially help clinicians and low-risk patients decide whether active surveillance and hormonal therapy is a reasonable management approach. Using the method could spare patients with benign lesions from invasive surgeries while maintaining high sensitivity for predicting malignant lesions. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Cook affirms safety record of Zilver PTX stents
In response to a recent meta-analysis that linked paclitaxel-coated devices...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: IZI buys Cook biopsy, breast localization needle assets Cook recalls catheters with Beacon tip Cook recalls angiography catheters Cook begins inferior vena cava filter studies Cook debuts new embolization coil (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 23, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

IZI buys Cook biopsy, breast localization needle assets
Interventional radiology technology provider IZI Medical Products has purchased...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: Cook recalls catheters with Beacon tip Cook recalls angiography catheters Cook begins inferior vena cava filter studies Cook debuts new embolization coil Landauer buys IZI Medical Products (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 8, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news