After a two-year hiatus because of the Covid pandemic, the 16th International Workshop on Breast Imaging took place in Leuven, Belgium last week. […]
Posts Tagged ‘Breast Cancer’
Ultrasound and Supercomputing
The European Innovation Council, under the umbrella of its Pathfinder Programme, has recently awarded a grant of €2.7 million to a […]
Inspired by an Ancient Queen
A decade ago, Siddhartha Mukherjee published his prize-winning book entitled The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. He quoted from […]
Is This Finally DBT’s Time?
Full-field digital mammography (FFDM) has been the “go to” imaging modality to screen for early detection of breast cancer for […]
AI for Breast Ultrasound
On 23 December 2021, the board of directors of RSNA announced that Dr Linda Moy (seen right) would become editor of their […]
Cholesterol and Breast Cancer
Cholesterol is an organic molecule that has a chequered history and is generally associated with an unhealthy diet. High levels […]
ABUS and DBT and FFDM
It was five years ago that we published a key article in Diagnostics, an open-access journal, in which we described our dual-modality […]
Learning from Past Mistakes
Almost 25 years ago, in 1998, the FDA approved computer-aided detection (CAD) tools as an adjunct to mammography. This was before the […]
Efficacy of Breast Self-Exams
It is widely accepted that when breast cancer is diagnosed early and remains localised, effective treatment yields a five-year survival […]
Are Drugs Fairly Priced?
Trastuzumab – also known as Herceptin – is a life-saving drug that arrests the development and spread of an aggressive form of […]