Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
The buildup to the Rio 2016 Olympics has not been smooth, to put it mildly, but all the problems are likely to be forgotten when the games open on Friday and the competition starts.
From an imaging perspective, the main surprise is there is no CT scanner in the polyclinic. The organizers of London 2012 thought CT was essential to guide interventional procedures. Will this omission come back to haunt the medical team in Rio? For the full story on the polyclinic, go to our MRI Community, or click here.
Brazilian researchers have been making the news in breast imaging too. A team from Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo found the combination of BI-RADS and MRI rivaled mammography for detecting ductal carcinoma in situ. Visit our Women's Imaging Community, or click here.
It's often said Turkey is the bridge between East and West, and the country's certainly become of great strategic importance to the rest of Europe over recent months. In spite of heavy investments in healthcare, it's of deep concern that the provision and uptake of cancer screening services remains poor. Get the details here.
Medical physicists play an important role in imaging today, and this was underlined by a symposium in London about the evolution and future of the discipline. To learn more about the current and future challenges facing medical physics, head over to the Molecular Imaging Community, or click here.
More imaging does not necessarily equal better care, and although there's a role for imaging after primary treatment of thyroid cancer, it should be tailored to patient risk, according to new research published in the BMJ. Click here to learn more.
