Cryoablation effective in women with breast cancer
A minimally invasive procedure called cryoablation that uses ice to freeze and destroy tumors has proven effective for women with large breast cancer tumors, according to a study presented March 27 at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) meeting in Salt Lake City.
The finding suggests the technique may provide a new treatment path for women who are not candidates for lumpectomy, or surgical removal, noted Yolanda Bryce, MD, an interventional radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and senior author of the study.
“Surgery is still the best option for tumor removal, but there are ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 27, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Interventional Breast Source Type: news
FAPI-PET/CT outperforms FDG-PET/CT in women with invasive breast cancer
This study underscores Ga-68 FAPI-PET/CT’s superiority over F-18 FDG-PET/CT for ILC,” the group concluded. A link to the full study can be found here. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Breast Source Type: news
Unmet social needs tied to screening mammography use
Women's unmet social needs should be considered to better promote breast cancer screening utilization and early-stage cancer diagnosis, suggest findings published February 13 in JAMA Network Open.
Researchers led by Neha Goel, MD, from the University of Miami in Florida found that access to screening mammography did not translate to mammography use and that increasing unmet social needs were tied to lower rates of screening mammography. Also, women with high levels of unmet social needs were more likely to present with late-stage breast disease.
“This novel research is important as diagnosis at a later stage significan...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Source Type: news
Could CEM be suitable alternative for imaging lobular carcinoma?
Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) can locally stage lobular breast carcinomas and could serve as an alternative to breast MRI, according to research published February 12 in Clinical Radiology.
A team led by Elisabetta Giannotti, MD, from Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, U.K., found that CEM had superior sensitivity compared to standard mammography and that both CEM and MRI overestimate tumor size to a similar degree.
"Traditionally, breast MRI has been used in many centers for preoperative staging, but CEM appears to be a suitable alternative,” the Giannotti team wrote.
Invasive lobular carcinoma is the ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 13, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Subspecialties Breast Imaging Source Type: news
Low-dose PEM shows promise in breast cancer detection
Low-dose positron emission mammography (PEM) can detect invasive breast cancer in a feasible manner, according to research published February 9 in Radiology: Imaging Cancer.
A team led by Vivianne Freitas, MD, from the University of Toronto found that PEM performed comparably to MRI in breast cancer detection and could serve as a supplemental imaging method for evaluating dense breasts.
"This groundbreaking imaging technique presents a compelling alternative, mirroring the clinical utility of traditional mammography and MRI but utilizing considerably lower doses of radiation when compared with previously molecular breast...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 9, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Source Type: news
No Added Benefit From Chemo in This Breast Cancer Subtype No Added Benefit From Chemo in This Breast Cancer Subtype
Adding chemotherapy to endocrine therapy for women with ER-positive, HER2-negative invasive lobular carcinoma does not improve survival outcomes.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - December 28, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology Source Type: news
F-18 fluciclovine PET/CT detects metastatic breast cancer
In this study, Mushtaq and colleagues enrolled 20 women with new or suspected recurrent ILC from a previous trial at Emory University. Patients had undergone PET/CT scans after IV administration of F-18 fluciclovine and Ga-68 PSMA on separate days. For comparison, conventional imaging included CT or bone scans in 13 patients and F-18 FDG-PET in seven patients.An image from Mushtaq's presentation showing a comparison between PET radiotracers in a patient with ILC. Image courtesy of Aliza Mushtaq, MD, Emory University.Three experts assessed radiotracer uptake per patient as well as in three regions per patient: ipsilateral a...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 27, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Breast Imaging 2023 Source Type: news
Road to RSNA 2023: Molecular Imaging
This is just the third year that RSNA has offered a dedicated track on nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, with eight scientific sessions covering research in prostate cancer imaging, breast cancer, cardiovascular and pulmonary imaging, and more. There will be also 30 educational courses and 14 poster sessions. Notably, this is the first year a scientific session is being offered that covers advances in AI in nuclear medicine. Presentations on PET imaging in prostate cancer – an approach that is witnessing widespread adoption – include an array of studies on prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-based radiotrac...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 15, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: 2023 2023 Molecular Imaging Preview Source Type: news
F-18 fluciclovine vs. Ga-68 PSMA: Which tracer is superior in metastatic breast cancer?
Monday, November 27 | 8:40 a.m.-8:50 a.m. | M1-SSNMMI02-5 | Room E350F-18 fluciclovine PET/CT imaging results in greater metastases detection in women with invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) of the breast than gallium-68 (Ga-68) prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-PET/CT, while both are superior to conventional imaging, according to this presentation.Presenter Aliza Mushtaq, MD, a postdoc research fellow at Emory University, will discuss a study comparing the use of the two PET radiotracers versus conventional imaging (CT and bone scans) in 20 women with de novo or suspected recurrent ILC.Conventional imaging detected ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 15, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: 2023 Molecular Imaging Preview Source Type: news
DBT-detected lobular neoplasia shows low upgrade rate
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - August 31, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Ultrasound-guided magnetic seeds localize breast lesions
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - August 23, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
MIT researcher discusses potential for wearable ultrasound patch
Canan DaĞdeviren, PhD, spoke with AuntMinnie.com about a wearabl...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - August 1, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Wearable ultrasound patch detects suspicious breast findings
A wearable ultrasound patch showed success in a pilot study for detecting potentia...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - July 28, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
AI helps characterize breast microcalcifications
An AI model developed by a team of researchers from China can differentiat...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - June 20, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
AI model shows promise for breast cancer prediction
An AI model predicts breast cancer risk after a negative screening, accordin...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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AI shows perfect performance in invasive lobular carcinoma (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - June 15, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
