The lead authors of a new study, Stacey Wolfson, MD, and Beatriu Reig, MD, from the Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, say women should not delay breast imaging if they recently received the COVID vaccine or a booster.

“The findings indicate that the DBT spot compression view can be performed in routine clinical practice to improve characterization of subtle or ambiguous findings on DBT,” experts wrote in AJR.

Concerningly, the number of patients diagnosed with stage 4 disease increased from 1.9% in 2019 to 6.2% in 2020, experts reported in JAMA Network Open.

Reactive axillary lymph nodes seen on screening mammograms after vaccination can last for many months and should not be cause for imaging delays, experts reported in Radiology.

Out of the patients who were eligible for LDCT, 88% followed through with their appointment, researchers reported in JACR.

After surgical excision, 10.2% of the architectural distortion cases with nonmalignant pathology at biopsy were upgraded to malignant, researchers reported in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

After witnessing a 6-fold increase in early-stage cancer diagnoses and no change in late-stage disease numbers, experts began to question ongoing screening methods.

More women did report having access to such exams, however, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.