People taking sides in the mammography debates have a fresh controversy to feed on. This one has some Ivy League heft—and a pointed statement from the American College of Radiology—behind it.

The best part of being a radiologist specializing in breast imaging is taking care of patients. The hardest part is telling some of them that they have cancer—but even then, you have the rewarding experience of supporting them “through the very difficult time surrounding a new cancer diagnosis” as they begin their treatment journey.

At one busy, academically affiliated breast center in the Northeast U.S., the so-called “Angelina Jolie Effect”—women being motivated by the celebrity to get screened for breast cancer—isn’t a thing.

Annual screening mammography adds no value to women who are high risk for breast cancer and, as a matter of course, are already getting screened each year with breast MRI, according to a study conducted at the University of Toronto and published online June 6 in Radiology.

Reviewing screening breast MRI data from six regional Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) registries representing 49 facilities, researchers have found breast rads performing quite impressively in their respective communities: Their interpretive accuracy from 2005 to 2013 met most BI-RADS benchmarks that are based on expert practice in clinical trials.

SAN DIEGO, June 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Volpara Solutions, Inc. announced an agreement to collaborate with leading mammography education provider, Mammography Educators, LLC ("Mammography Educators"), to create mammography positioning training videos that will be integrated in the recently released Volpara®Enterprise™ 2.0 software.

Women undergoing percutaneous breast biopsy experience less pain and discomfort when the procedure is guided by ultrasound than by stereotactic mammography with vacuum assistance, according to a Canadian study published online May 22 in European Radiology.

The emerging imaging technology called quantitative transmission (QT) ultrasound has shown its utility as an aid in distinguishing cysts from solid lesions in the breast, according to a study published online May 23 in Academic Radiology.