Washington — The American College of Radiology supports provisions in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (S.3040) that would extend until 2019 the current two-year delay in implementation of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening mammography recommendations. 

NYU-Langone researchers have shown an association between high levels of saturated fat in breast adipose tissue with breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

Comparing the quality of synthesized 2D images created using 3D digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) with the quality of images captured in 2D full field digital mammography (FFDM), a research team at Duke has found that the former is indeed better than the latter at depicting some visual features.

Reaching out directly to patients through the Internet, social media and other nontraditional channels, researchers have recruited more than 2,000 participants from across the country for a metastatic breast cancer (MBC) study project launched last fall.

Women with dense breasts are significantly better served when imaged with a combination of screening mammography and supplemental 3D automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) than when they’re imaged with screening mammography alone. 

From airport baggage screeners to assembly-line inspectors, humans tasked with repetitively or continuously scrutinizing separate but similar visuals for hours on end tend to lose their focus bit by bit. The effect is called vigilance decrement. Does it affect screening-mammography readers to a dangerous degree? 

Researchers have developed a new statistical model to estimate the absolute risk of breast cancer to help improve public health strategies and prevention.

The use of whole-breast irradiation to treat stage I and II breast cancer appears to be increasing the incidence of radiation-associated angiosarcoma (RAS) of the breast, and radiologists play a crucial role in diagnosing the disease, four Harvard-affiliated radiologists write in a discussion piece published ahead of print in the American Journal of Roentgenology.