Over the past eight years, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has been the focus of numerous blogs, including “To treat […]
Posts Tagged ‘Mammography’
Inspired by the Greeks
It was the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates who said, “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” He […]
Phase-Contrast Imaging and Breast Surgery
One of the challenges facing a surgeon when excising a malignant tumour from a patient’s breast is whether the entire […]
“Extracting Information My Brain Cannot”
Constance Lehman is a radiologist who works at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where she studies mammograms of healthy […]
Vaccine Causes Swollen Lymph Nodes
For the past six weeks, there has been a collective sigh of relief in the UK and USA as vaccines […]
Breast Imaging Embraces AI
Earlier this week in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published an action plan for the use of artificial […]
QT Ultrasound Beats FFDM
Two years ago, we introduced a company called QT Ultrasound – where QT stands for “quantitative transmission” – that had just launched three imaging […]
Scientific Breakthroughs in 2020
It’s that time when the journal Science selects a major breakthrough from the past year, together with nine runners-up. Not […]
DBT vs BCT
Well, it’s the battle of the acronyms – digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) versus breast computed tomography (BCT) – in the […]
Breast Density as a Predictor
When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, the axillary lymph nodes are sometimes removed surgically or treated by radiotherapy. […]