Over the last 30 years, the mortality rate associated with ovarian cancer has only slightly decreased despite multiple efforts aimed at developing an effective method for its early detection, such as transvaginal ultrasound to visualize ovaries, measuring CA-125 levels and evaluating protein tumor-marker panels.

For the past two decades, breast cancer awareness has prompted women to take preventative measures that have helped them to beat the odds and live longer after initial diagnosis. But there is no complacency in the fight against breast cancer, and in just the last year, the industry has launched an arsenal of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools aimed specifically at defeating breast cancer.


Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women, and women’s healthcare centers that specialize in breast imaging, surgery and treatment represent the offensive line against breast cancer development. As the adage goes, the best defense is a good offense.

Since the release of the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST) results in September 2005, there is little controversy over the benefits of digital imaging in detecting breast cancer. The study found that digital imaging was as accurate as film in detecting breast cancer and 28 percent more accurate in women under 50 and in women with denser breast tissue.

January 23, 2007 - Solos Endoscopy, Inc. announced its worldwide launch of its new Solos Breast Endoscopy System used for performing Mammary Ductoscopy procedures, enabling physicians to examine the mammary ducts under direct visualization.

JANUARY 23, 2006 — GE Healthcare announced today that the company received full corporate accreditation by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), the not-for-profit accrediting agency for entities that send or receive HIPAA transactions or that transport or process EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions between two or more trading partners in the healthcare community.

January 23, 2007 - ECRI, a nonprofit health services research agency, announced the publication of its 19th annual edition of the 2007 Healthcare Standards: Official Directory, an updated print edition that indexes titles of more than 39,000 official and hard-to-find healthcare standards, practice guidelines, policy statements and other authoritative documents from more than 1,250 issuing organizations.

January 22, 2007 - The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (formerly SCAR), a professional organization at the nexus of medical imaging and information technologies, has launched its new website: www.siimweb.org.

The new website coincides with the re-branding of the society and the intention to use the Internet as a much stronger platform to serve its members throughout the year. The website provides valuable content for the entire medical imaging community and serves as a resource for the emerging field of imaging informatics.

January 22, 2007 — Matrox Graphics Inc. has sealed a technology partnership with Larivière GmbH, pairing Matrox TheatreVUE display projection controller boards with
Larivière's AcuScreen for LCD/DLP and D-ILA Projectors solution and Canon's XEED projector with LCOS-Technology.

January 22, 2007 - Washington Hospital will be among the first facilities in the world to offer the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion by Elekta, a stereotactic radiosurgery treatment device for surgery on brain tumors.
Located in Washington Hospital's new Taylor McAdam Bell Neuroscience Institute, Gamma Knife Perfexion will be used for brain tumor therapy, spine surgery and neurodegenerative disorders, and controversies in cerebrovascular disease. Gamma Knife

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