The risk of a second primary cancer following colorectal cancer (CRC) is significantly higher than expected cancer incidence rates for those without CRC, according to a study published online July 15 in CANCER.

Women who survived childhood cancer face a 50 percent higher risk of infertility than their siblings. However, the ultimate rate of conception among cancer survivors who are unsuccessful in becoming pregnant after one year of trying is nearly two-thirds, on par with eventual pregnancy among all clinically infertile women.

Screening mammography, the mainstay of women’s imaging, is a trigger point. For decades, we’ve watched an escalating debate about the exam. As I browsed the latest clinical research, however, the latest highlights originated in other, less unexpected corners.

To help save the lives of injured and ill mountain and Grauer’s gorillas and to sustain their populations in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gorilla Doctors is using the ViamoTM ultrasound system, donated by Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. The system is the first in the project’s 26 years to be used on gorillas in the wild, greatly improving the quality of veterinary care.

Neuroimaging for patients complaining of a headache is largely discouraged because few abnormalities are found. Using an abbreviated MRI sequence to determine which patients need to proceed to a comprehensive scan, however, can generate savings of more than 40 percent for payers while still catching problems at a high rate, according to a study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

A population-based study of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cancer among older adults in Northern Italy has found that the two diseases have an inverse relationship, with AD dementia patients exhibiting a lower risk of cancer and vice versa, according to a study published July 10 online in Neurology.

Personalized therapy assessment for Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) with interim FDG PET could help step up or step down treatment to find the curative sweet spot, but the transition from PET-adaptive clinical trials to practice requires additional time to prove broad benefit for patients, according to a review published July 1 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

The advent of CT pulmonary angiography may have spurred overdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), according to an analysis published July 2 in BMJ. The authors detailed a three-step plan to reduce overdiagnosis.