Excerpt: With the recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approval and rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, it is important for radiologists to consider recent COVID-19 vaccination history as a possible differential diagnosis for patients...
Excerpt: Inflammatory breast disorders include a wide array of underlying causes, ranging from common benign infection, non-infectious inflammation and inflammation resulting from underlying breast malignancy. Because it is at times difficult to distinguish mastitis...
The latest evidence does not support any tests or combination of tests for screening or surveillance of ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer has been called a ‘silent killer’, as it tends to either have no symptoms or symptoms that can easily be interpreted as other, less...
The JeneScreen research project is open to residents of Sydney and Melbourne, and will test for the three BRCA faults that are common in the Jewish population. Please click here for more information about how you can be involved in the research project.
TRIPLE-MODALITY SCREENING TRIAL FOR FAMILIAL BREAST CANCER UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND QUESTIONS THE ROLE OF MAMMOGRAPHY AND ULTRASOUND REGARDLESS OF PATIENT MUTATION STATUS, AGE, AND BREAST DENSITY Purpose To evaluate the breast cancer...
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) affects around 8000 women a year in the UK.1 Since the introduction of mammographic screening, the incidence of DCIS has increased and it now represents around 20% of all new screen detected breast cancers. To read more please go to...
Women living in areas with high air pollution are more likely to have dense breasts, boosting their chances of developing breast cancer, a major new study has found.Breast density has been shown to have a strong link to breast cancer. Women with the most dense breasts...
Lynn C. Hartmann, M.D., Amy C. Degnim, M.D., Richard J. Santen, M.D., William D. Dupont, Ph.D., and Karthik Ghosh, M.D Breast biopsies are commonly performed to evaluate mammographic or palpable findings that are of concern, and the majority reveal benign findings....
More than 46,000 people in NSW will be told they have cancer in 2018, official projections show. The sobering forecast also predicted the number of new breast, lung, bowel cancer and melanoma patients who will be diagnosed across every Sydney local government area...
By Ana Sandoiu Breast cancer survival rates are very high compared with other forms of cancer, but in some cases, the cancer does comes back. New research highlights key recommendations that breast cancer survivors can incorporate into their lifestyle so as to reduce...
