It is estimated that 15% of breast cancers are diagnosed after the patient is screened mammographically with negative results but during the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Tumour’
Automated Breast Ultrasound Emerges
Automated breast ultrasound or ABUS – where the ultrasound transducer is moved across the breast under automated control rather than […]
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 […]
A New “Killer App” ?
In 1839, Gustav Rose discovered a novel mineral in the Ural Mountains of Russia which he named “perovskite” in honour of the […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]