On the eve of Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes the news that Katie Couric, the former CBS Evening News anchor, was diagnosed with […]
Posts Tagged ‘Tumour’
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 […]
A Tutorial on Breast Masses
Yesterday saw the online publication in JAMA Network of a tutorial entitled “Breast masses in biological females.” Published by the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Turning Cancer on Itself
Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]
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 […]
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 […]