Screening

Diagnostic screening programs help catch cancer, abnormalities or other diseases before they reach an advanced stage, saving lives and healthcare costs. Screening programs include, lung, breast, prostate, and cervical cancer, among many others.

Opportunistic AI detects colorectal cancer using routine, noncontrast CT
The COlorectal Cancer detection with AI, or COCA, model is a cost-effective, scalable solution that turns routine CT scans into opportunistic exams that can be used to proactively identify CRC.
'Defer to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment experts': Imaging leaders rail against new ACP breast cancer screening recs
Two respected radiology organizations have issued a stark warning on the new recommendations, stating that they risk confusing patients and “may contribute to thousands of additional breast cancer deaths each year.”
New guidelines recommend AI-based breast cancer risk assessments
NCCN suggests that 5-year future breast cancer risk assessments based on routine mammograms should be integrated into standard practices.
Experts call for Lung-RADS updates amid concern about certain incidental findings
New findings from a large CT lung cancer screening dataset reveal that a substantial number of patients have significant incidental findings visible on their scans.
Breast cancer screening rates saw a 10% drop among several groups of women over the last 2 decades
Decreased screening rates among different subgroups highlight the ongoing need for outreach strategies that target vulnerable populations, experts contend.

Ultrasound images reveal how smoking before conceiving impacts embryonic development

"The delay in morphological development cannot be fully recuperated during the course of the pregnancy, as is shown by the 20-week ultrasound scans and birth weights,” experts cautioned in Human Reproduction.

A new study suggests not delaying mammograms due to getting a COVID vaccine because cancers may go un detected. The RSNA study showed several examples of swollen lymph nodes that appeared to be from the vaccine, but turned out to be cancers.

Q&A: Should COVID vaccinated patients delay getting breast imaging — new study says no

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.

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DBT spot compression views increase reader accuracy

“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.

Significant uptick of late-stage cancer diagnoses attributed to COVID

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.

Mammograms should not be delayed after COVID vaccine, research shows

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.

Rural outreach initiative produces significant increase in lung cancer screenings

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

New research can help radiologists manage architectural distortion identified via DBT exams

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.

Are LDCT lung screening programs overdiagnosing cancer?

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.

Screening

Opportunistic AI detects colorectal cancer using routine, noncontrast CT

'Defer to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment experts': Imaging leaders rail against new ACP breast cancer screening recs

New guidelines recommend AI-based breast cancer risk assessments

Experts call for Lung-RADS updates amid concern about certain incidental findings

Breast cancer screening rates saw a 10% drop among several groups of women over the last 2 decades