Posts Tagged ‘Mammography’

Inspired by her Aunt

Posted on: September 22nd, 2023 by admin No Comments

In 2015, Dr Canan Dağdeviren (seen right) was busy with her post-doctoral fellowship at MIT in Boston when she received news that […]

Will Radiologists Become Redundant?

Posted on: September 8th, 2023 by admin No Comments

Two papers were published this week, one in Radiology that compared the performance of radiologists with an AI algorithm in reading mammograms, […]

Screening Doesn’t Save Lives?

Posted on: September 1st, 2023 by admin No Comments

Earlier this week researchers from Norway, led by Dr Michael Bretthauer (seen right), published a paper in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled “Estimated […]

We Want Answers!

Posted on: August 25th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

A recent paper in JAMA Network Open, entitled “Patterns in cancer incidence among people younger than 50 years in the US,” analysed […]

Find It Early Act

Posted on: August 18th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

It’s hard to believe but today marks 12 years since I started writing these Friday blogs, which means there have […]

Finally – A Well-Executed Study on AI

Posted on: August 11th, 2023 by admin

There are currently more than 20 artificial intelligence (AI) applications for breast imaging approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in […]

3D Ultrasound: How’s that Work?

Posted on: July 14th, 2023 by admin

It was almost 52 years ago that engineer Godfrey Hounsfield and radiologist James Ambrose carried out the first computed tomography (CT) scans, […]

Focus on Breast Screening in Europe

Posted on: June 16th, 2023 by admin

Two weeks ago, the European Society of Radiology hosted an online webinar entitled “Breast cancer screening: the updated EU Council recommendations and […]

A Flurry of Screening Advice

Posted on: May 12th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

Advocates on all sides of the breast screening debate are agreed that the earlier a malignant tumour is detected, the […]

Cancer Surgeon to Lead NIH

Posted on: April 28th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

When CapeRay was still in its infancy at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Kit Vaughan and Tania Douglas were […]