In light of their findings, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers urge patients who delayed screening during the initial COVID-19 surge to contact their provider and reschedule.
Massachusetts General Hospital designed its pilot program to serve dual-eligible women who face significant barriers to completing their exams in outpatient settings.
The new approach relies on radiomic CT data combined with ultrasound imaging to create a visual guide for doctors, researchers explained in European Radiology.
This new legislation continues to recognize 2002 guidelines calling for screening every one to two years beginning at age 40, rather than the 'ill-advised' 2009/2016 USPSTF recommendations, the ACR said Wednesday.
Providers must turn to shared decision-making and adhere to clinical guidelines in an effort to minimize the potential harms of LDCT, researchers wrote in JAMA Network Open.
Yale Medicine researcher and lead author Melissa A. Durand, MD, said she expects the method to move forward as the standard of care, replacing traditional mammography
Both the University of California, San Francisco, and UCLA received the greenlight for Gallium-68 PSMA-11 and noted it is rare for academic institutions to obtain such approval.