Automated breast ultrasound or ABUS – where the ultrasound transducer is moved across the breast under automated control rather than […]
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Horns of a Dilemma
Imagine you are a creative person and you invent something with significant commercial potential. Should you fulfil the legal obligation […]
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 […]
Intervention by Radiologists
Radiologists have traditionally been considered specialists in diagnosis because they examine medical images, but there is a small subset that […]
Our Dunkirk Moment
The Battle of Dunkirk, fought between 26 May and 4 June 1940, marked a turning point in World War Two. During […]
Protons vs Photons
X-rays, first discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, are beams of photons that exhibit three intrinsic properties when passing through biological tissue. […]
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 […]
Me and You
Earlier this week, on 4 February, it was World Cancer Day and Sky News in the UK interviewed 15-year-old Jack Browett. He described an […]
A Tutorial on Cancer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), located just outside Washington, DC, in the leafy suburb of Bethesda, MD, is home to 27 […]
Oncotripsy Demonstrates Potential
Many of us, as children, probably experimented with a magnifying glass in which the sun’s rays were focused on a […]