PSA and Biomarker Testing Plus MRI Appears to Improve Prostate Cancer Screening Early results suggest approach reduces overdiagnosis while better detecting high-grade cancer Apr 06, 2024
Microwave Ablation a Safer Option for Multifocal Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma? Observational study suggests promising benefits of skipping surgery Apr 02, 2024
Forget 'Pack-Years' for Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility, Study Suggests Switching to just a 20-year duration of smoking could catch more cancers, eliminate disparities Apr 01, 2024
'Excellent' Outcomes After Complete Response in Lymph Node-Positive Breast Cancer Similar survival regardless of adjuvant therapy, even with omission of RT and axillary dissection Mar 27, 2024
Big Drop in Rate of Ipsilateral Breast Cancer After DCIS Dutch study showed greater than 50% decrease from 1989-2021 with or without adjuvant RT Mar 26, 2024
VCTE-Based Agile Scores Accurate in Predicting Liver-Related Events in MASLD Serial Agile scores were also accurate over time Mar 25, 2024
Low-Dose RT Boost Wins Support for Young Patients With Early Breast Cancer A 1.6% reduction in locoregional recurrence with higher dose offset by worse cosmetic outcomes Mar 21, 2024
No OS Difference in Pancreatic Cancer With SABR vs Irreversible Electroporation PFS, adverse events also comparable with the ablative modalities after FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy Mar 21, 2024
Novel Therapy Promising for Radiation-Induced Oral Mucositis No patient with head and neck cancer developed a severe case during 7 weeks of treatment Mar 04, 2024
Gene-Guided Immunotherapy Misses Mark in Recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer Few responses with or without guidance in small first step for "personalized" treatment Mar 04, 2024
Vismodegib-RT Regimen Achieves High Rate of Disease Control in Head and Neck BCC Local control in 91% of cases at 1 year in small prospective trial Mar 01, 2024
Cancer Prevention Strategies Linked to Mortality Reduction in BRCA Carriers Cohort studies indicate oophorectomy, breast MRI surveillance save lives, researchers say Feb 29, 2024
AI Has an Environmental Impact, Too But it may be able to deliver net carbon benefits, at least in radiology Feb 27, 2024
Intravascular Imaging-Guided PCI Reaches a Turning Point With Survival, MI Benefits Updated meta-analysis provides strong impetus for IVUS, OCT adoption Feb 21, 2024
Annual Breast Cancer Screening Starting at Age 40 Best, Modeling Study Says Estimates suggest mortality was reduced by 42% with annual screening for this age group Feb 20, 2024
Transient Left-Sided Weakness, Facial Palsy in Middle-Age Man Timely recognition of this rare phenomenon considered crucial to prevent recurrent stroke Feb 20, 2024
Radioligand Therapy Continues to Show Promise for Metastatic CRPC Median OS of 15.5 months, PFS of 7.9 months with Ac-225-PSMA in heavily treated patients Feb 16, 2024
Rotator Cuff Tears: Take Surgeons' Word That MRI Is Needed Most scans ordered at first visit showed pathology that physical therapy wouldn't fix Feb 16, 2024
When Clock's Ticking on Vision Loss, New Protocol Speeds Eye Stroke Diagnoses Hospitals picked up pace by using OCT scanners and embracing virtual diagnoses Feb 14, 2024
More Patients Rely on Early Prenatal Testing as States Toughen Abortion Laws But testing early in pregnancy may be inaccurate Feb 13, 2024
Late Tenecteplase Not Beneficial for Stroke Patients With LVOs Lytic at least appeared safe in a selected population with many undergoing thrombectomy Feb 09, 2024
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Shows Some Benefit After Breast Cancer Irradiation However, most women declined the therapy in this study Feb 08, 2024
Before Stroke Thrombectomy, Keep the Bed Flat, Trial Says Tilting the head of the bed up during early window in large vessel occlusion hurts outcomes Feb 07, 2024
Anticoagulant Falls Short for Secondary Stroke Prevention in Atrial Cardiopathy Can atrial cardiopathy really be the cause of some cryptogenic strokes? Feb 07, 2024
Getting a Dental X-Ray? New Recommendation Says You Don't Need a Lead Apron Advocacy and education needed to change more minds about the apron, according to an expert Feb 03, 2024
Study Supports High-Dose RT, Long-Term ADT as Standard for High-Risk Prostate Cancer OS, PFS, cancer-specific survival all improved, with no increase in toxicity Jan 26, 2024
AI Diagnoses Deadly Disease; Radiology's New AI Guidance; WHO Tackles LMMs A monthly roundup of healthcare-focused AI news and research Jan 25, 2024
Two-Stage Screening Strategy for Ovarian Cancer Continues to Show Progress Large study shows stage shift, high specificity, increasing PPV over 21 years Jan 24, 2024
Is Adding an AI Readout to Mammography Worth It? Women would have to pay out-of-pocket, as reimbursement is a long way off Jan 24, 2024
New Standard for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma? Adding durvalumab and bevacizumab to transarterial chemoembolization almost doubles PFS Jan 21, 2024
FDA Clears AI-Powered Non-Invasive Skin Cancer Detector Intended for use in primary care, handheld device is first of its kind Jan 17, 2024
Breast Cancer Mortality Reduced by 58% Over Past Four Decades Modeling study suggests advances in treatment played largest role, followed by screening Jan 16, 2024
Hypofractionated Chemoradiation With Adaptive SABR Appeared Effective in NSCLC Dose of 70 Gy in 15 fractions showed favorable balance between safety and efficacy in small trial Jan 12, 2024
Exercise ECGs Highly Specific for Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Reconsidering the humble testing modality's false-positive issue Jan 08, 2024
Opening Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise Focused ultrasound helped aducanumab reduce amyloid-beta levels Jan 03, 2024
Cancer Patients Face Frightening Delays in Treatment Approvals "For them to take weeks -- up to months -- to provide an authorization is ridiculous" Dec 30, 2023
Oral Factor XIa Inhibitor Disappoints for Secondary Stroke Prevention Milvexian did not reduce strokes or covert brain infarcts in AXIOMATIC-SSP Dec 28, 2023
'Medicare for All' Candidate in 2024; Exploding MRI Machine; Doc Convicted of Murder Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by Bվ staff Dec 21, 2023
Explanations Don't Help Clinicians Spot Biased AI Biased AI predictions tanked diagnostic accuracy, and model explanations didn't bring it back up Dec 19, 2023