Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) was approved by the FDA in 2011 as a screening modality for the early detection of […]
Posts Tagged ‘Screening’
ABUS Firm Raises Another $30 Million
Delphinus Medical Technologies has just announced the closing of a $30 million investment to fast-track commercialisation of its SoftVue automated breast ultrasound […]
1.5 Billion Women Lack Health Screening
On Wednesday this week, Hologic released its second annual global women’s health index (GWHI), which provides a framework for achieving comprehensive progress. […]
New Director for National Cancer Institute
Fifteen years ago, when CapeRay was still being incubated within the University of Cape Town (UCT), we were awarded a […]
Reducing Breast Cancer Deaths in Low-Income Countries
Each year, 2.3 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer, while there are 685,000 deaths. Two-thirds of these deaths occur in middle- and […]
Breast Compression Predicts Interval Cancer
After a two-year hiatus because of the Covid pandemic, the 16th International Workshop on Breast Imaging took place in Leuven, Belgium last week. […]
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 […]
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 […]