The color pink has become almost inextricably associated with breast cancer research, especially during October. For many people, wearing pink clothes or using pink products can feel like a way to morally support friends and family who have had the disease while also monetarily contribute to research that could find ways to save lives. 

It’s the maddening malady you’ve never heard of unless you hear it inside your head every day and nobody else can hear it yet it’s so loud to you that you can actually record it. Seriously.

Teenagers may be impulsive and more likely to take risks, making them more responsive to rewards, but new research says this behavior helps them transition into adulthood.

It’s not unusual for radiologists reviewing prior breast imaging exams to discover cancers that went missed the first time around. Such circumstances can and should provide a valuable learning opportunity, according to the authors of an article running in the November-December edition of Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

Comic actor Ben Stiller’s reveal on his victory over prostate cancer has drawn heavy coverage well beyond the celebrity press. Much of the reporting has rightly noted the big-heartedness of his public service but, curiously, hasn’t questioned his assertion that it was specifically PSA testing that saved his life. 

The radiology subspecialty of breast imaging has its problems, not least the discord it deals with every day over screening scheduling. 

Work is underway to come up with an imaging-based “mammogram for the pancreas” at Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest not-for-profit hospital system in the Lone Star State.  

When to start? And how often after that? The mammography deliberations get a long, thoughtful airing in the pages of the Press Democrat newspaper based in Santa Rosa, California.