Oncology & Cancer

Individual risk assessment ups mammography in women at high risk

(HealthDay)—Providing individualized breast cancer risk estimates as a component of primary health care is associated with an increased use of mammography among women of racial- and ethnic-minority groups who are at high ...

Radiology & Imaging

Researchers use deep learning to predict breast cancer risk

Compared with commonly used clinical risk factors, a sophisticated type of artificial intelligence (AI) called deep learning does a better job distinguishing between the mammograms of women who will later develop breast cancer ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

HRT could raise odds for asthma

Millions of women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to ease their transition through menopause may be unknowingly upping their risk for asthma.

Oncology & Cancer

New findings on obesity and response to cancer therapy

Liza Makowski, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Medicine and the UTHSC Center for Cancer Research, has long been interested in how the immune system is altered by obesity and how this impacts cancer risk and treatment.

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