This week Dr Ray O’Connor considers some recent papers which touch on disease prevention Vaccine preventable Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)This was a prospective, population-based CAP surveillance study1 at three hospitals in Germany. All patients admitted with clinically suspected CAP were tested for vaccine preventable infections. These included streptococcus pneumoniae, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza virus … Read more
Original story from King’s College London How breast cancer is detected can impact a patient’s chance of survival, with screening, even at a late stage, associated with a greater likelihood of surgical intervention. Women with stage IV breast cancer detected through screening have a 60% chance of survival ten years after diagnosis. This is in comparison … Read more
Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality globally, underscoring the critical need for early detection to improve survival rates and reduce treatment invasiveness. This review synthesizes advancements in imaging technologies that enhance early diagnosis, focusing on their clinical applications, limitations, and future potential. Introduction Breast cancer accounts for 25% of cancer cases in … Read more
Supplemental imaging techniques could more than triple cancer detection in dense breasts compared with standard care alone, according to new research. The study, published in The Lancet, found that abbreviated magnetic resonance imaging (AB-MRI) and contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) could help detect an additional 3500 breast cancer cases per year in the UK. Around 2.2 million … Read more
The prototype of a new machine that can detect tumors in women with dense breast tissue has been developed by researchers from UCL, Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle University, in partnership with international technology group Kromek. All breasts are composed of adipose (fatty) and fibroglandular (dense) tissue. Up to 40% of women have dense breasts containing … Read more
Each year, millions of women undergo mammography to screen for breast cancer, yet tiny calcium specks—known as microcalcifications—often evade detection or are misread, leading to delayed diagnoses or unnecessary biopsies. Conventional computer-aided tools rely on hand-crafted rules and struggle with the sheer variety of imaging devices and lesion patterns. In a recent study led by … Read more
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TOPLINE: Among women aged 70 years or older with screen-detected breast cancer, those with a history of screening mammography within 5 years of their diagnosis were much more likely to be diagnosed at an earlier stage and much less likely to die from breast cancer, according to a new analysis of over 13,000 women. METHODOLOGY: … Read more
Emerging research suggests that prior mammography screening within five years of breast cancer diagnosis for seniors significantly reduces the risks of later-stage diagnosis and breast cancer-specific mortality. For the study, recently published in JAMA Network Open, researchers reviewed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database for 13,028 women who had screening mammography-detected … Read more
Diagnostic Imaging’s Weekly Scan: February 16 — February 22 Diagnostic Imaging Source link