A simple blood test corresponding to the follicular phase of a normal menstrual cycle can aid in optimal scheduling of breast MRI exams in premenopausal women with irregular cycles - possibly reducing the number of repeat scans and non-diagnostic tests patients experience and providing clearer images on which doctors make their recommendations, ...

Local physicians and radiologists are clear about a new recommendation suggesting women should wait until age 50 to begin mammograms.

A new set of recommendations from a government task force has women confused about mammography and breast self-exams. If you're confused by the recent task force recommendations about mammograms and breast self-exams, it's no wonder.

The purpose of this article is to familiarize the radiologist with several devices that may be placed in the thorax and abdomen.

Using a blood test to pinpoint the optimal timing of breast MRI scans in women with irregular menstrual cycles could reduce the need for repeat scans, U.S. researchers say.

First in a three-part series. A Saskatchewan radiologist billed the provincial medical plan a record $2.3 million last year, the most recent government figures say.

Obviously, I am not more knowledgeable about breast cancer than a government-led panel of experts.

Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is the result of a combined effort.

Main Category: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 NYU Langone Medical Center is the first hospital in the Northeast to offer one of the world's fastest and most radiation dose efficient computed tomography scanner.

Primordial, Inc. announced today the 22nd deployment of its radiology report Search application.

For years, breast cancer screening clinics have struggled. Elizabeth Sanders, a radiologist in Auburn, Wash., checks a digital mammogram.

When it was created four years ago, the Fuller Cancer Center in Ringgold offered a new location for cancer treatment patients in North Georgia and Chattanooga.

A massive review of 70,000 exams done by a Saskatchewan radiologist is more than half complete and flaws have been found in a small number of cases.

The diagnosis of lung cancer in two patients was delayed at a hospital in Scotland, a review of X-rays has found.

Dr Otto Chan told a hearing in East London that some doctors at the Royal London Hospital were ''exposed'' to procedures that they were not trained for.

A controversial health report calling mammograms unnecessary for most women younger than 50 has created a firestorm of debate by reversing years of conventional advice.

"This will not go down. We will fight it to the ninth degree," said Dr. Mary Kay Peterson, director of women's imaging for Radiology Regional Center with locations in Fort Myers, Naples, Cape Coral and Lehigh Acres.

Sweeping new U.S. guidelines for breast cancer screening released yesterday recommend against routine mammograms for women in their 40s and question the benefit of self-exams. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an influential panel of independent experts, issued the guidelines, which run counter to the advice of bodies such as the Cancer ...

As many software companies work to create programs that will give uniform structure to the way radiological test results are reported, a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that such a system does not improve, but rather decreases the completeness and accuracy of the reports.

A government task force advises that most women do not need mammograms until their 50th birthday.