It is estimated that 15% of breast cancers are diagnosed after the patient is screened mammographically with negative results but during the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Screening’
Breast Ultrasound and AI
In some countries, hand-held ultrasound (HHUS) examinations are widely used to screen healthy women for breast cancer because this modality […]
Where was Peer Review?
The origins of peer review can be traced back over 350 years to the launch of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal […]
Early Detection Saves Lives … Or Does It?
One impact of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past three months is that women have delayed or even skipped their […]
COVID-19 and Medical Imaging
The gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19 is reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), a technique for which its inventor, Kary […]
Closer to the Holy Grail
Seven years ago, we reviewed the progress in developing a blood test for the early detection of breast cancer. Thought to be […]
Our Dunkirk Moment
The Battle of Dunkirk, fought between 26 May and 4 June 1940, marked a turning point in World War Two. During […]
Is Breast Screening Ready for Retail?
It was almost a decade ago that a group of clinicians from Boston published a paper in Academic Radiology entitled “Retail venue-based […]
Potential of AI to Detect Breast Cancer
On 1 January 2020, Nature published a multi-author paper that demonstrated the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect breast […]
The Evidence Continues to Build
Scientists led by Dr Mengmeng Jia from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing presented a noteworthy paper at the RSNA […]