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.

Screening-detected breast cancer linked to better outcomes
New research could provide useful information for cancer registries and potentially help policymakers better evaluate screening outcomes to develop more effective guidelines.
Cardiac CT's expanding role gives radiologists new opportunities
Suhny Abbara, MD, editor of RSNA's Radiology, explains some of the advances in cardiac CT radiologists should be paying attention to.
AI-powered opportunistic screening could help find patients with undetected aortic stenosis
Having AI that can recognize and report signs of aortic stenosis in noncardiac imaging scans would make a major impact on patient care.
Are automated CT exams on the way? Cardiologist shares concerns about radiation, regulation
Former SCCT president Ed Nicol, MD, knows there has been interest in the potential of automated CT exams. However, he isn't so sure they are possible at this point in time for a number of reasons.
Opportunistic chest CT screening could identify undiagnosed heart disease in many patients
The greatest opportunity is detecting coronary atherosclerosis in younger patients undergoing CT for unrelated reasons, including trauma evaluations.

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.

Cervical cancer screening rates are dropping, with some groups particularly behind

More women did report having access to such exams, however, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Rural veterans less likely to get LDCT lung cancer screenings, prompting doctors to call for change

About 28% of veterans in rural areas completed their annual exams, research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology revealed.

Convolutional neural network pipeline has 100% accuracy distinguishing between COVID and pneumonia

"The proposed pipeline can accelerate diagnosis and augment the performance of radiologists,” experts explained in Computers in Biology and Medicine.

Screening

Screening-detected breast cancer linked to better outcomes

Cardiac CT's expanding role gives radiologists new opportunities

AI-powered opportunistic screening could help find patients with undetected aortic stenosis

Are automated CT exams on the way? Cardiologist shares concerns about radiation, regulation

Opportunistic chest CT screening could identify undiagnosed heart disease in many patients