Four years ago Google bought a British artificial intelligence (AI) company called DeepMind for half a billion US dollars. The founders studied […]
Posts Tagged ‘Biopsy’
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 […]
Late Spread Supports Early Diagnosis
Scientists from the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and their international collaborators have just published a paper in Cancer Cell entitled “Genomic evolution of […]
I’ll See You in Court!
We recently reviewed the false-negative conundrum and the devastating consequences for a woman if a malignant breast tumour is missed at screening. […]
RFIDs Guide the Surgeon
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, which employ electromagnetic fields, have a history stretching back to World War II. Passive tags contain electronically stored […]