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The women’s health channel includes news, videos, podcasts and other content related to technology used to detect and treat breast cancer and cervical cancer, including mammography, breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), automated breast ultrasound (ABUS), breast ultrasound, breast biopsy and breast radiation therapy.

Figure 1. R MLO view from four different years. The skin mole is marked with a circular skin marker (TomoSPOT REF# 782, Beekley Medical) on the far-left image. These images demonstrate the potential for significant variability in location of the skin lesion due to movability of the skin during positioning.
Sponsored Content | Case Study | Breast Imaging
Use of Mole Markers in DBT Improves Clinical Workflow and Patient Safety

Christina Jacobs, M.D., Director of Breast Imaging (Bronson Health System) is always looking for ways to work more ...

Time April 09, 2020
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#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2 Volpara sponsoring free virtual CME course and other resources to help during pandemic response
News | Breast Imaging
Volpara Solutions Collaborating with DetectED-X to Make COVID-19 Diagnostic Training Modules Available to Radiologists

April 7 2020 — Volpara Solutions announced it is collaborating with DetectED-X, an online radiology training and ...

Time April 07, 2020
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A recent study earlier this year in the journal Nature, which included researchers from Google Health London, demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) technology outperformed radiologists in diagnosing breast cancer on mammograms
Feature | Breast Imaging | By Samir Parikh
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enhance the Radiologist and Patient Experience

A recent study earlier this year in the journal Nature, which included researchers from Google Health London ...

Time April 06, 2020
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Breast density is divided into four categories, from lowest to highest amounts of fibroglandular tissue composition. Category A: Almost entirely fatty (least amount of fibroglandular tissue). Category B: Scattered fibroglandular tissue. Category C: Heterogeneously dense. Category D: Extremely dense (most amount of fibroglandular tissue).
Feature | Breast Density | By Dayna Williams M.D., Shivani Chaudhry, M.D., and Laurie R. Margolies, M.D.
Breast Density Explained

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and, for women in their forties, the leading cause of premature death ...

Time April 03, 2020
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#COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SARScov2
News | Mammography
MQSA Inspection Information Related to COVID-19

March 25, 2020 — The Division of Mammography Quality Standards (DMQS) has received numerous inquiries regarding COVID-19 ...

Time March 25, 2020
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The 2020 Society of Breast Imaging/American College of Radiology (SBI/ACR) annual symposium has been cancelled, and the event rescheduled for April 8-11, 2020, in Savannah, Ga. #COVID19 #Coronavirus #2019nCoV #Wuhanvirus #SBI20
News | Society of Breast Imaging (SBI)
2020 SBI/ACR Breast Imaging Symposium Cancelled Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

March 16, 2020 — The 2020 Society of Breast Imaging/American College of Radiology (SBI/ACR) annual symposium has been ...

Time March 16, 2020
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DBT, sometimes called 3-D mammography, emerged in the last decade as a powerful tool for breast cancer screening
News | Breast Imaging
Tomosynthesis Outperforms Digital Mammography in Five-year Study

March 11, 2020 — A new study published in the journal Radiology has found that the advantages of digital breast ...

Time March 11, 2020
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SoftVue image stacks of sound speed, as shown for cases ranging across the four Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) breast density categories
News | Breast Imaging
Study Finds Potential of Whole Breast Ultrasound Tomography to Improve Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

March 10, 2020 — Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc., a leader in advanced breast ultrasound technology, announced that ...

Time March 10, 2020
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The study concludes that a combination of Artificial Intelligence algorithms and the interpretations of radiologists could, in the U.S. alone, result in a half million women not having to undergo unnecessary diagnostic tests every year
News | Mammography
Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Precision of Mammograms

March 7, 2020 — The study is based on the results obtained in the Digital Mammography (DM) DREAM Challenge, an ...

Time March 07, 2020
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Christopher Comstock, M.D., ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group study published in JAMA builds evidence for use of abbreviated MRI in women with dense breasts
News | Breast Imaging
Abbreviated MRI Outperforms 3-D Mammograms at Finding Cancer in Dense Breasts

February 26, 2020 — According to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...

Time February 26, 2020
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Women 75-plus May Not Benefit from Breast Cancer Screening
News | Mammography
Women 75-plus May Not Benefit from Breast Cancer Screening

February 25, 2020 — According to newly published research in an article titled Continuation of Annual Screening ...

Time February 25, 2020
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Recognized as the “Pulitzer Prize of the business press,” the Jesse H. Neal Award finalists are selected for exhibiting journalistic enterprise, service to the industry and editorial craftsmanship
News | Radiology Business
ITN Named a Finalist in the 66th Annual Jesse H. Neal Awards

February 19, 2020 — Connectiv, a division of The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), has announced the ...

Time February 19, 2020
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Kubtec Mozart system for tomosynthesis 3-D imaging
News | Breast Imaging
Kubtec Granted Two New Patents for Breast Cancer Imaging Technology

February 18, 2020 — KUB Technologies, a U.S. medical device company that develops digital technologies used in the ...

Time February 18, 2020
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Mammograms of a 49-year-old woman with invasive lobular carcinoma on the right-side breast
News | Artificial Intelligence
AI-assisted Radiologists Can Detect More Breast Cancer with Reduced False-positive Recall

February 11, 2020 — A new study, published in Lancet Digital Health, shows the added value of AI-aided breast cancer ...

Time February 11, 2020
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Sponsored Content | Videos | Artificial Intelligence
itnTV Conversations: How AI Factors Into Efforts to Detect Breast Cancer

ProFound AI is an FDA-cleared artificial intelligence (AI) system for reading 3-D breast tomosynthesis images. At RSNA19 ...

Time February 06, 2020
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Advances in Mammography, Breast imaging.
Feature | Breast Imaging | By Barbara Smith
Technologies to Watch in Breast Imaging

Women in the United States have a 1 in 8 (or about 13 percent) lifetime risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer ...

Time February 03, 2020
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Mammogram showing dense breast tissue
News | Breast Imaging
University of Chicago Offers Mammosphere from Life Image to Support WISDOM Study Participants, Improve Research

January 29, 2020 — Life Image announced that it will provide Mammosphere, a breast health data access tool, to the ...

Time January 29, 2020
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ringing the cancer bell can do more harm than good, says an ASTRO study
News | Radiation Oncology
Is it Time to Stop Ringing the Cancer Bell?

January 27, 2020 — It's a scene that some cancer patients dream about: they celebrate the end of a course of radiation ...

Time January 27, 2020
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A 50-y-old postmenopausal woman with fibroadenoma (arrows) in left breast
News | PET-MRI
PET/MRI Identifies Notable Breast Cancer Imaging Biomarkers

January 27, 2020 — Researchers have identified several potentially useful breast cancer biomarkers that indicate the ...

Time January 27, 2020
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Sponsored Content | Videos | Mammography
itnTV "Conversations:" Latest Advancements in Fujifilm 3-D Mammography

Imaging Technology News Contributing Editor Greg Freiherr interviewed Henry Izawa, vice president of modality solutions ...

Time January 24, 2020
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