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BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or the Company) (NASDAQ: HOLX), a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, today announced that a groundbreaking new study published in Radiology, the Radiological Society of North America scientific journal, found that the addition of three dimensional (3D) mammography (breast tomosynthesis)...
Even though Medicare spends over $1 billion per year on breast cancer screenings such as a mammography, there is no evidence that higher spending benefits older women, researchers at Yale School of Medicine found in a study published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. Led by Cary Gross, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center at...
BOSTON, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dune Medical Devices, Inc., announced today that its breakthrough intra-operative tissue assessment tool for early-stage breast cancer surgery, the MarginProbe System, has received Premarket Approval (PMA) by the United States Food and Drug Administration. The technology significantly improves surgeons' ability to intra-operatively identify "cancer on the margin" and significantly reduce pathologically positive margins following a patient's...
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are looking into the widespread implementation of computed-tomography (CT) scanning for the early detection of lung cancer in a public heath setting, asking two key questions: Without screening, why and how do patients with lung cancer get diagnosed with the disease in the first place? And what proportion of these cases would be captured by screening efforts? Dr. David Gerber, an oncologist and assistant professor of internal medicine, has used...
How effective is the German mammography screening program? This is the question examined by Oliver Heidinger of the Epidemiological Cancer Registry North Rhine–Westphalia and his co-authors in the first study on this subject in Germany, in Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. To answer it, the authors have used the interval cancer rate as an indicator. Interval cancers are tumors found more or less by chance between two screenings. In approximately 880 000 women from North...
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In October, we see and hear a lot of breast cancer messages. And that's a good thing, because with the help of breast cancer awareness initiatives, most women over 40 understand the importance of having an annual mammogram. But here's something many people still may not know: for some women, an annual screening mammogram may not be enough. The SmartMamm program launched recently by Princeton Radiology Associates (PRA), an accredited...
JOHANNESBURG, November 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "It may be difficult for people in the United States or Europe to believe this but in South Africa, there are millions of people who have never heard of breast cancer," states Noelene Kotschan, founder and CEO of PinkDrive. Kotschan has travelled internationally as a speaker on breast cancer education and awareness strategies and how these can flourish as a support to state-funded health programmes in low-resource...
TORONTO, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Responding to a report issued by CBC news November 27, 2012, representatives from Thermography Clinic Inc. want Canadians to be accurately informed about breast thermography, its benefits and limitations. Thermography, as a whole, should not be discredited simply because of the misinformation and low integrity of one company. Thermography Clinic Inc. and its affiliates have been consistently cautious and strict not to sell fear, and to stay...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Meeting, held annually in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the largest and most prestigious medical imaging conferences in the world. Top researchers often choose this venue to announce significant results from their clinical work. One of the most exciting areas of modern medicine being discussed at this year's meeting is molecular imaging. This week, many attendees expressed interest towards...
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomona Valley (Calif.) Hospital Medical Center (PVHMC) has selected Dell and Siemens Healthcare to provide diagnostic image archiving and sharing services to address long-term data storage needs. The move provides the hospital with a scalable and cost-effective storage and archival strategy for its new 3D breast imaging services. PVHMC will be using the archiving solution not just for 3D breast images but also for all other images,...
