Search Tag: Breast Cancer Treatment
Machine Learning Improves Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis
2019 18 Dec
Researchers in New Zealand are combining machine learning (ML) and standard imaging to improve both diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. You might also like: RSNA 2019: Biennial Mammography Screening Yields More Advanced-Stage Cancers The Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Science and technology, Health and medicine Researchers... Read more
RSNA 2019: Biennial Mammography Screening Yields More Advanced-Stage Cancers
2019 27 Nov
Mammography screening has been helpful in lowering breast cancer mortality, but there is ongoing debate on how often women should be screened. A new study has found that biennial mammography screening is associated with advanced-stage breast cancer compared with annual screening. Additionally, women undergoing screenings every two years tended... Read more
E-cigarette & Vaping Products Blamed for Lung Disease Outbreak
2019 11 Nov
Use of e-cigarette or vaping products, which may contain nicotine and tetrahydrocannabinol, has been blamed for an outbreak of lung disease that hit the U.S. starting in August. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI) reported from 49 states and one... Read more