Researchers at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities are working on a system to view and treat bladder tumors that could eventually make an uncomfortable procedure both more tolerable and easier to perform.

Clinical and commercial leaders from GE Healthcare and Dorcy Cancer Center at St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center in Pueblo, Colorado, joined together today for a special tour to honor the Center’s continuing innovation in cancer care.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) have responded to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine which concluded that 15 to 25 percent of cancers in the Norwegian mammography screening program are overdiagnosed, saying those overdiagnosis rates are overestimated, according to a statement on ACRs website.

The present is big with the future, observed author Rudyard Kipling. The novelist was not referring to 21st century diagnostic imaging; however, the insight certainly applies.

According to research presented during the 21st annual scientific sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in San Diego this week, cardiac troponin plasma concentrations and longitudinal strain can predict the development of cardiotoxicity in patients treated with anthracyclines and trastuzumab chemotherapies.