Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.
Breast density is most often discussed within the context of cancer risk, but new research suggests that it also could be used as a marker of cardiometabolic health.
The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer.
The American College of Radiology (ACR), Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and major medical organizations experienced in breast cancer care continue to recommend that women start getting annual mammograms at age 40.
Prospective trials comparing clinical outcomes of occasionally screened low-risk women with outcomes of low-risk women screened annually may overlook or misidentify breast cancers that exist but haven’t advanced, according to a new editorial.
Carestream Health will demonstrate its Touch Ultrasound platform that offers features designed to address current challenges in sonography at the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) conference and exhibit that begins Oct. 1 in Dallas, Texas.
Edinburgh Molecular Imaging Ltd. (EM Imaging) has signed an exclusive global license for a novel optical imaging agent that could improve the detection of early-stage colorectal (bowel) cancer.
Has overuse of mammography created an epidemic of breast cancer pseudo-survivorship? That was the provocative question asked in a recent editorial published by Forbes.
A $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute will be given to the University of Oklahoma (OU) and Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City to go toward the development of new short-term breast cancer risk prediction models.
Who doesn’t like getting things for free? It’s even better when the freebies are used to incentivize patients to quit smoking or eat healthy. But should those gift cards, event tickets and t-shirts be used to get women to come in for a mammogram?
The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.
CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.
