Since 1980, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has been collaborating with its American counterpart NASA to develop and deploy sophisticated […]
Posts Tagged ‘Biopsy’
Tomosynthesis vs Ultrasound in Dense Breasts
A research group based at the University of Genoa in Italy is known by its acronym ASTOUND, which stands for Adjunct […]
Looking for a Polar Bear in a Snowstorm
Fifteen years ago, Nancy Cappello’s annual screening mammogram was found to be normal, just as had been reported for the […]
Google Meets Breast Cancer Challenge
Four years ago Google bought a British artificial intelligence (AI) company called DeepMind for half a billion US dollars. The founders studied […]
NCI Launches Plans for 2020
A decade ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were successful in […]
Predicting the Return of Breast Cancer
Clinicians do not currently have a reliable way to predict which patients treated for hormone receptor-positive (HR+) breast cancer run […]
POCUS Gathers Momentum
In the past week two companies – Hologic from the USA and Healcerion from South Korea – have announced FDA […]
In Defence of Screening
As highlighted in these weekly blogs over the past six years, there have been well-publicised efforts to undermine the benefits […]
ACRIN is an Acronym to Remember
The American College of Radiology Imaging Network – or ACRIN – is a non-profit organisation that conducts research on adults […]
Emotions Colour Our Inner World
Jenny Dalgliesh felt a lump in her left breast and visited the family doctor who in turn referred her to […]