When public health budgets are constrained, mammography screening should begin later and occur less frequently, a cost-effectiveness analysis for California’s Every Woman Counts (EWC) program concludes.

The New York Proton Center (NYPC), a consortium of five leading hospitals in New York City, including Continuum Health Partners, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Montefiore Medical Center, the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and New York University Langone Medical Center, announced an agreement with ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Somerset, N.J., CentraState Health Care System, Princeton Radiation Oncology  and management services for NYPC being provided by 21st Century Oncology, a national provider of advanced radiation oncology services. This agreement will give the consortium’s patients access to a state-of-the-art proton treatment center in Somerset, N.J., one of only twelve such centers in the nation and the only center in the New York and New Jersey region. Proton therapy is a unique form of precision radiation that directly attacks tumors while minimizing potentially damaging radiation to surrounding healthy tissues and organs.

Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pa.) have categorized the appearance and evolution of abnormalities on neuroimages that represent abusive head trauma (AHT) in infants. The researchers' descriptions of these abnormalities are important for narrowing down the timing of AHT, which can aid police in identifying and excluding potential perpetrators. Appearances of a variety of abusive traumatic injuries on cranial CT scans and MRIs at different time points are described and discussed in "Serial neuroimaging in infants with abusive head trauma: timing abusive injuries. Clinical article," by Ray Bradford, M.D., Arabinda K. Choudhary, M.D., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.R, and Mark S. Dias, M.D., published online, ahead of print, in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. This study is the largest one on timing of AHT to date, and its findings confirm and extend those of a previous, smaller study conducted by the senior author, Mark S. Dias, M.D. The researchers hope that this article will serve as an important reference for professionals called upon to provide a time frame for abusive head injuries.

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To improve healthcare providers’ diagnostic confidence, Toshiba is showcasing enhancements to its Kalare radiographic/fluoroscopy (R/F) digital X-ray system.

Building on their breast care analytics expertise, Volpara Solutions will launch VolparaAnalytics and VolparaDose at RSNA. VolparaAnalytics and VolparaDose (pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review) join VolparaDensity to round out a suite of breast care analytics designed to offer new insights from mammography volumetric data. Visit Volpara at RSNA in Hall A, Booth 5925.

On September 4, Kettering Medical Center (Kettering, Ohio) became the first clinic in North America to use Elekta's Versa HD system to treat a patient, a 71-year-old woman with medically inoperable lung cancer.

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