When CT is utilized to image a trauma patient, two subspecialty radiologists—neuroradiologists and body radiologists—often interpret the patient’s thoracic and lumbar spine. The two subspecialists don’t always agree on the presence of an unequivocal acute fracture.

A knowledge gap exists for what radiographers know about gender identity in diagnostic imaging, wrote radiographers Sidsel Pedersen and Virginia Sanders in an editorial published in the journal Radiography.

Clinicians may be able to use circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to develop a staging system that helps the treatment of metastatic breast cancer (MBC), according to research to be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting June 1-5 in Chicago.

Lead author Seth Seabury, PhD, from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, and colleagues determined that there are "significant gaps in follow-up for patients with mTBI after hospital discharge, even those with a positive finding on CT or who continue to experience post concussive symptoms."

Less than a month after British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that up to 270 women may have died of breast cancer after a technical error neglected to send 450,000 invites for final routine mammograms, one doctor is warning the number of failed invites may have been closer to 500,000, The Independent reports.

Lung cancer rates among white and Hispanic women born since the 1960s are on the rise, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Why these rates are climbing faster among women than men, however, remains unclear.

Breast cancer survivors are not receiving the recommended number of mammograms following surgery, according to a new study published by the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommends breast cancer survivors undergo annual mammograms to keep a close eye on potential disease recurrence.

Fewer than one percent of patients develop an acute kidney injury (AKI) after a contrast media procedure, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.