Ohio Governor John Kasich signed Ohio’s breast density inform bill into law (HB 394, Section 3702.40). Ohio becomes the 20th state to enact such a bill, which requires healthcare providers to inform women if they have dense breast tissue, which may negatively impact the ability to clearly diagnose breast cancer. This raises the number of American women living in states with some level of mandatory breast density notification to 60 percent.
For two years now, Proton Therapy Center Czech (PTC) in Prague has been among the world’s top proton therapy facilities. Having treated altogether 750 patients from 22 world countries, the center has gradually opened most of its treatment rooms and launched a two-shift operation in reaction to the growing demand for proton beam therapy.
Elekta's Versa HD system is making its clinical debut or preparing to treat patients at three Australian centers. On Oct. 1, 2014, Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre at Campbelltown Hospital (Campbelltown, NSW) became the first clinic in Australia to treat patients on one of its two Versa HD systems. On Nov. 10, Adelaide Radiotherapy Centre followed suit with its first Versa HD patient treatments. Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Prince of Wales Hospital (Randwick, NSW) is making preparations to begin treating patients on its Versa HD system.
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In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers from Inserm led by Paul Hofman has just made a significant advance in the area of early diagnosis of invasive cancers.
Adding radiation treatment to hormone therapy saves more lives among older men with locally advanced prostate therapy than hormone therapy alone, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology this week from Penn Medicine researchers.

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Lexmark’s Perceptive Software announces a new agreement with Allscripts, including Allscripts Sunrise.
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Doctors Imaging offers a quantitative diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a new MRI technology that can detect brain damage not appearing on routine MRIs or CT scans.
Surgeons on the medical staff of Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas now have access to high-quality images in as little as five seconds thanks to the implementation of two Carestream DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems.
Dune Medical Devices announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of an updated version of its flagship product, MarginProbe, a medical device that enables real-time detection of cancer at the surface of excised tissue specimens during breast-conserving cancer surgery.
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Carestream is now the first company approved to provide the latest picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) for use in U.S. Navy medical facilities as a result of meeting some of the most stringent product security requirements for the Navy’s DIACAP certification process.
Radiologists can transmit their reports, which can also contain access to images, to their referring physicians’ electronic health records (EHR) systems securely, efficiently, and cost effectively using carefully selected technology, according to a presentation by Advanced Data Systems Corp. (ADS) at the 2014 Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago, Nov. 30-Dec. 5.
Blackford Analysis announced that its software has been successfully integrated into a tool developed by Massachusetts General Hospital’s Tumor Imaging Metrics Core for its Precision Imaging Metrics system that helps radiologists and oncologists coordinate to generate clinical trial imaging results with enhanced efficiency and quality.
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RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ.) has entered into a long-term distribution agreement with Kamol Sukosol Electric Co. (KEC), in Bangkok, Thailand.
Mediso Ltd. announced at the annual congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine the launch of new MRI subsystems with 3 and 7 Tesla field strength.
At the IEEE medical Imaging Conference (MIC) in November, ContextVision co-presented with Texas Instruments and High Performance Consulting on new research on 3-D adaptive filtering.
EDAP TMS SA received a letter from the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its current premarket approval (PMA) application for the Ablatherm integrated imaging device for high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU).
A new surgical device enables breast cancer patients to be treated with dramatically improved targeting of radiation. Findings were presented at the 18th SIS World Congress on Breast Healthcare. The congress was co-hosted by the Senologic International Society (SIS) and the American Society of Breast Disease (ASBD).
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "MediPoint: Nuclear Imaging - PET and SPECT Equipment - Global Analysis and Market Forecasts" report to their offering
Supplemental ultrasound screening for all U.S. women with dense breasts would substantially increase healthcare costs with little improvement in overall health, according to senior author Anna Tosteson, ScD, at Dartmouth Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
The value of volumetric breast density to help improve breast cancer risk prediction models and monitor clinical treatment was the focus of numerous abstracts presented at the 2014 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).