Dear Women's Imaging Insider,
There are two perpetual questions in breast imaging: How can breast cancer screening be improved, and does mammography lead to overdiagnosis? (That last one is more of a debate than a question.)
In our Women's Imaging Digital Community, you'll find more research on the first question. Industry analysts provide their opinion on what could be alternatives to mammography. Ultrasound? Digital breast tomosynthesis perhaps? What do you think? Do researchers even need to keep searching for an alternative? Post your comments at the article.
Also in our community you'll find a story on gynecological emergencies. They don't happen only during pregnancy. What should you look for? What are common emergencies? Researchers from a top London hospital have compiled an overview of the imaging appearances of emergencies in nonpregnant patients. Be sure to check it out.
Curious as to what happened in women's imaging at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) World Congress of Brachytherapy? We have you covered:
Researchers found accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) brachytherapy produces comparable local recurrence outcomes with much better cosmesis compared to whole-breast irradiation. Read more.
Delivering radiotherapy directly to cancer of the cervix using 3D imaging guidance is effective at controlling the return and spread of the disease. In most cases, hysterectomies may be avoided. Find out more.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Other stories you might find interesting:
Photoacoustic technology, the use of light-induced sound, is showing promise in imaging of breast cancer. It may be able to distinguish malignant tissue from normal tissue by providing high-contrast images of tumors, Dutch researchers said.
Can uncompressed digital mammograms be transmitted to different institutions with different workstations, without loss of information? Does the transmission affect image quality, lesion detection, or BI-RADS rating? Austrian researchers answered those questions.
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