Oncology & Cancer
Is MRI the 'mammography' of prostate cancer screening?
(HealthDay)—MRI screening might greatly reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer in older men, a preliminary study suggests.
Mar 27, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Screening MRI benefits women at average risk of breast cancer
MRI screening improves early diagnosis of breast cancer in all women-not only those at high risk-according to a new study from Germany published online in the journal Radiology.
Feb 21, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
MRI offers 100% screening certainty for diagnostic exclusion of breast cancer
MedUni Vienna researchers from the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy have conducted a meta analysis of more than 2,300 patients from 14 international studies and have been able to show, for the very ...
Aug 18, 2016
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Medical research
NIST develops first widely useful measurement standard for breast cancer MRI
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the first widely useful standard for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast, a method used to identify and monitor breast cancer.
Mar 23, 2016
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Biopsy robot combines MRI and ultrasound
Researchers at the University of Twente in The Netherlands are working on a biopsy robot that combines the best features of MRI and ultrasound, aiming to improve the diagnosis of breast cancer and muscle diseases.
Jan 21, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Combined imaging modalities may change cancer management
PET/CT and whole-body MRI detect extraskeletal disease that may change the management of high-risk breast and prostate cancer patients, according to a recent study reported in the December issue of The Journal of Nuclear ...
Dec 10, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Breast MRI after mammography may identify additional aggressive cancers
Additional breast cancers found with MRI are sometimes larger and potentially more aggressive than those found on mammography, according to a study published online in the journal Radiology. Researchers said that in some ...
Nov 25, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer
Researchers have shown that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect the earliest signs of breast cancer recurrence and fast-growing tumors. Their approach detects micromestastases, breakaway tumor cells with the potential ...
Aug 12, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
90 percent of all breast cancers can be detected with MRI
Around 90 per cent of all breast cancers can be definitively diagnosed using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This compares to the combined methods of mammography and ultrasound which yielded a detection rate of just 37.5 ...
Apr 7, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
What to know if breast cancer runs in your family
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in women. A woman's lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is 12 percent (1 of every 8 women). Breast cancer risk is higher among women whose close blood relatives ...
Oct 7, 2014
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