Women's Health

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.

Breast Cancer Index added to National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines to predict benefit from extended endocrine therapy

News | Women's Health

Hologic Completes Acquisition of Biotheranostics, Enabling Entry into Growing Oncology Market

February 23, 2021 — Hologic, Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of molecular oncology leader ...

February 23, 2021

F-18 FES PET images of patients with ER+/PR+/HER2- invasive ductal carcinoma. Left panel: Progressive disease seen at the 8-week time-point in a patient on sequential therapy. Right panel: Stable disease through all 3 time-points, remaining on study therapy for 6.7 months until disease progression on combined vorinostat aromatase inhibitor therapy. Image created by Lanell M Peterson, Research Scientist, University of Washington Medical Oncology, Seattle WA.

News | Molecular Imaging

Molecular Imaging Determines Effectiveness of Novel Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment

February 22, 2021 — Molecular imaging can successfully predict response to a novel treatment for ER-positive, HER2 ...

February 22, 2021

Examples of the imaging performance of XPCI-CT (b,e) compared to conventional specimen radiography (a,d) and benchmarked against histopathology (c,f). he top row focuses on the similarity between the XPCI-CT slice in (b) and the histological slice in (c). Arrow 1 indicates margin involvement, arrow 2 a variation in density in the internal structure of the tumour mass, arrow 3 tumour-induced inflammation. All this is confirmed by the histological slice in (c), and hardly visible in the conventional image in

News | Breast Imaging

Advances in X-ray Imaging can Help Patients with Breast Cancer

February 22, 2021 — A new X-ray imaging scanner to help surgeons performing breast tumor removal surgery has been ...

February 22, 2021

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Webinar | Mammography

WEBINAR: Advanced Diagnostic Technology for Accurate Imaging

The COVID-19 pandemic had a huge impact on the radiology community. Hospitals, doctors’ offices and clinics found ...

March 03, 2022

Screening strategy based on baseline breast density at age 40 may be effective and cost-effective for reducing breast cancer mortality

News | Breast Density

Risk-based Breast Cancer Screening

February 10, 2021 — A mammography screening strategy based on a baseline breast density measure at age 40 may be the ...

February 10, 2021

Comparison of breast cancer mortality rates (red squares) and distant-stage breast cancer incidence rates from SEER9 (blue dots) and SEER18 (green dots) per 100,000 for white women aged, A, 20–39, B, 40–69, and, C, 70–79 years (3,7,8).

News | Breast Imaging

Breast Cancer Death Rates Stop Declining in Younger Women

February 10, 2021 — Breast cancer death rates have stopped declining for women in the U.S. younger than age 40, ending a ...

February 10, 2021

After acquiring the molecular breast imaging (MBI) assets from GE Healthcare and Dilon Technologies, Inc., SmartBreast Corporation (SmartBreast), a privately held company focused on breast cancer screening and diagnosis, announced today that it has formed a partnership with FoxSemicon Integrated Technologies, Inc. (FITI) to manufacture molecular breast imaging (MBI) systems.

News | Breast Imaging

SmartBreast Forms Molecular Breast Imaging Partnership with FITI

February 9, 2021 — After acquiring the molecular breast imaging (MBI) assets from GE Healthcare and Dilon Technologies ...

February 09, 2021

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Videos | Artificial Intelligence

VIDEO: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Radiologists Workflow

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more common place in radiology practices, and emerging technologies are ...

November 11, 2020

News | Breast Imaging

Female Breast Cancer Surpasses Lung as the Most Commonly Diagnosed Cancer Worldwide

February 8, 2021 — Cancer ranks as a leading cause of death in every country in the world, and, for the first time ...

February 08, 2021

Volpara Health, a health technology software company whose integrated breast care platform assists in the delivery of personalized patient care, announced the acquisition of CRA Health, LLC, a breast cancer risk assessment company spinoff from Massachusetts General Hospital — a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital.

News | Breast Imaging

Volpara Acquires Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Company CRA Health, LLC.

February 2, 2021 — Volpara Health, a health technology software company whose integrated breast care platform assists in ...

February 02, 2021

A nationwide panel of experts has developed the first mammography guidelines for older survivors of breast cancer, providing a framework for discussions between survivors and their physicians on the pros and cons of screening in survivors' later years.

News | Mammography

First Mammography Screening Guidelines Issued for Older Survivors of Breast Cancer

January 29, 2021 — A nationwide panel of experts has developed the first mammography guidelines for older survivors of ...

January 29, 2021

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Table 1. Compared to 2-D mammography, which yields four images per patient, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or 3-D mammography, produces hundreds of images per patient. While this provides more information for clinicians, the exponential increase in data can result in reader fatigue and burnout, which may ultimately affect patient care.

Case Study | Artificial Intelligence

From Surviving to Thriving: How Regional Medical Imaging Enhanced Productivity

As the largest independent imaging group in Michigan with 10 locations across the state, Regional Medical Imaging (RMI) ...

April 09, 2020

Hologic, Inc. announced the expansion of its ultrasound portfolio with the launch of the new SuperSonic MACH 20 ultrasound system

News | Ultrasound Imaging

Hologic Expands Ultrasound Portfolio to Address Full Spectrum of Imaging Needs

January 29, 2021— Hologic, Inc. announced the expansion of its ultrasound portfolio with the launch of the new ...

January 29, 2021

The four standard views of an individual mammogram were fed into Mirai. The image encoder mapped each view to a vector, and the image aggregator combined the four view vectors into a single vector for the mammogram. In this work, we used a single shared ResNet-18 as an image encoder, and a transformer as our image aggregator. The risk factor predictor module predicted all the risk factors used in the Tyrer-Cuzick model, including age, detailed family history, and hormonal factors, from the mammogram vector.

News | Breast Imaging

Mammogram-based Breast Cancer Risk Model Could Lead to Better Screening Guidelines

January 28, 2021 — A new machine learning algorithm based on mammograms can estimate the risk of breast cancer in women ...

January 28, 2021

Radiologists have recently taken on the role of activists and are tackling pressing issues in healthcare, including breast density

Feature | Women's Health | By Fazila Seker, Ph.D.

Stepping Up to the Big Issues

Radiologists — who have long been professionals in the metaphorical and literal back-rooms of healthcare — have recently ...

January 20, 2021

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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.

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 ...

April 09, 2020

Solis Mammography, the nation’s largest independent provider of breast health and diagnostic services, announced that it has expanded its state-of-the-art multimodality medical imaging capabilities in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC through the acquisition of Progressive Radiology.

News | Breast Imaging

Solis Mammography Announces the Acquisition of Progressive Radiology

January 15, 2021 — Solis Mammography, the nation’s largest independent provider of breast health and diagnostic services ...

January 15, 2021

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Study Shows Sharp Decline in Cancer Screenings During First COVID-19 Surge

January 15, 2021 — In one of the first studies to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer diagnoses ...

January 15, 2021

A, Contrast-enhanced axial T1-weighted fat-saturated image from baseline MRI before initiation of neoadjuvant therapy shows irregular mass (arrow) in upper inner right breast corresponding to biopsy-proven carcinoma. B, Contrast-enhanced axial T1-weighted fat-saturated image from follow-up MRI performed 3 months after initiation of neoadjuvant therapy shows decrease in size of right breast cancer (arrow). C, Contrast-enhanced axial T1-weighted fat-saturated image 3 months after initiation of neoadjuvant the

News | MRI Breast

New Suspicious Lesions on Breast MRI in Neoadjuvant Therapy

January 15, 2021 — According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), new suspicious findings occurred in 5.5% ...

January 15, 2021

A targeted intervention providing mammograms to hospitalized Medicaid patients can help patients complete overdue breast cancer screening

News | Mammography

Inpatient Mammograms Can Reduce Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening Rates

January 14, 2021 — Completing cancer screening tests, such as mammograms, can be challenging for low-income people, who ...

January 14, 2021

DB-I website features new educational tools and streamlined user experience to improve access to medically sourced breast density content

News | Breast Density

DenseBreast-info Launches Updated Website

January 13, 2021 — DenseBreast-info.org (DB-I) invites health providers seeking the most up-to-date medically-sourced ...

January 13, 2021

This cutting-edge technology assists radiologists in the interpretation of screening mammograms and allows them to diagnose breast cancer earlier and more accurately

News | Mammography

Therapixel receives CE mark for AI-based software MammoScreen

January 12, 2021 — Therapixel announced that MammoScreen has successfully obtained the CE mark. After having received ...

January 12, 2021

World-first techniques for predicting breast cancer risk from mammograms that were developed in Melbourne could revolutionise breast screening by allowing it to be tailored to women at minimal extra cost

News | Mammography

New Mammogram Measures of Breast Cancer Risk Could Revolutionize Screening

January 6, 2021 — World-first techniques for predicting breast cancer risk from mammograms that were developed in ...

January 06, 2021

Transaction accelerates Hologic’s entry into oncology growth market, provides new lab capabilities

News | Breast Imaging

Hologic to Acquire Biotheranostics, Leader in Molecular Tests for Breast and Metastatic Cancers

January 6, 2021 — Hologic, Inc., a global leader in women's health, announced today that it has agreed to acquire ...

January 06, 2021