A major new analysis has entered the lifestyle vs. luck fray via JAMA Oncology, its authors having concluded that changes in lifestyle can ward off most cancers and that primary prevention ought to remain a priority for cancer control.

Breast-cancer patients can learn how to hold their breath for more than five minutes in order to receive radiation therapy while motionless, which can lead to shorter treatments, lower overall doses, better tumor targeting and less destruction of healthy tissue.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 24 — Carestream will demonstrate its ability to support   deconstructed and unified enterprise imaging platforms at the 2016 SIIM (Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine) conference being held June 29-July 1 in Portland. Carestream’s standards-based, modular platform offers interoperability that allows users to choose one or multiple modules to satisfy their enterprise imaging needs. 

Consuming high amounts of saturated fat or low amounts of mono- and polyunsaturated fats as an adolescent is associated with higher breast density in young adulthood.

Boston Scientific has received FDA approval to go to market with an MRI-compatible version of one of its implantable spinal-cord stimulators used to relieve chronic pain.

After conducting a meta-analysis of 346 phase I clinical trials involving more than 13,000 cancer patients, researchers have found that outcomes are significantly better when treatment targets the molecular characteristics of the individual tumor than when older, anatomic site-based approaches are used. 

Stricken with a brain tumor while pregnant with her first child, pathologist Rhea Birusingh, MD, of Nemours Children’s Health System in Florida, is now alive, well, cancer-free—and happy to be watching her son grow as normal following a stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. 

Primary-care providers (PCPs) trying to explain incidental findings in radiology reports to their patients may be prone to offering insufficient or inappropriate follow-up instructions. The problem points to an opportunity for radiologists to give explicit recommendations along with the results.