Search Tag: Cancer imaging

IT Management

Deep-learning-reduces-need-for-gadolinium-contrast

2021 26 Oct

Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs), used during MRI scans, enhance brain tissue contrast. GBCAs are crucial for brain tumour care because they highlight areas with abnormal blood-brain barrier permeability that tumours cause.  This permits monitoring of treatment response and also guide surgical tumour removal.  Disadvantages to using GBCAs include...Read more

Health Management

Biparametric-mri-a-new-standard-for-prostate-cancer-imaging

2021 12 Jul

A lone and discordant voice supported by few at first, biparametric prostate magnetic resonance imaging has been gradually gaining attention and visibility as a reliable, faster, and cheaper alternative to conventional multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging and could become a new standard of care in the near future. Key Points The role...Read more

Executive Health Management

International-cancer-imaging-society-icis-2019

2019 07 Oct

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Location-influences-imaging-follow-up

2019 23 Jan

One of the major problems which is commonly attributed to affect patient outcomes is the failure to follow-up diagnostic imaging in time. It is critical to follow-up diagnostic imaging findings in order to have access to and receive high quality and vital care. Patient location at the time of undergoing imaging is directly related with how likely a...Read more

IMAGING Management

International-cancer-imaging-society-icis-2018

2018 07 Oct

International Cancer Imaging Society Meeting and 18th Annual Teaching Course Read more

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Novel-chemical-dye-improves-liver-cancer-imaging

2017 06 May

A novel nondiamond-based contrast agent has been developed by a team of scientists from the National University of Singapore. The chemical "dye" can be used to enhance the visibility of internal body structures in MRI and can improve the visualisation of liver cancer tumours. This in turn can facilitate earlier detection and improved treatment strategies....Read more

IMAGING Management

Cancer-imaging-the-need-to-improve-utilisation-management

2017 10 Jan

Variation in provider ordering preferences and lapses in care coordination are key factors affecting high-cost cancer imaging utilisation, according to a study published in Journal of Cancer Policy. In particular, high-ordering oncologists were found to be substantial drivers of imaging utilisation, with 58 percent more per patient imaging than their...Read more

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Need-for-radiologists-to-solidify-position-in-cancer-teams

2016 01 Aug

A new article titled "A New Look at Toxicity in the Era of Precision Oncology: Imaging Findings, Their Relationship With Tumor Response, and Effect on Metastasectomy" states that the increasing use of cancer imaging will require radiologists to solidify their position as central members of the cancer team. The article is published in the American Journal...Read more

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New-imaging-model-helps-arrest-pancreatic-cancer-growth

2016 07 Jun

A new non-invasive, image-based tracking of stem cell signals in living animals could provide a strategy to arrest pancreatic cancer growth, especially the most common pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, which is extraordinarily lethal, with a 5-year survival rate of just 6 percent. Chemotherapy treatments are poorly effective, in part due to a high...Read more

IMAGING Management

Twice-daily-radiotherapy-halves-treatment-time-for-small-cell-lung-cancer

2016 05 Jun

Having radiotherapy once a day for six and a half weeks or twice a day for three weeks – when combined with chemotherapy – is equally good at treating small cell lung cancer that hasn’t spread. These results – from a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial presented at the ASCO cancer conference in Chicago – mean patients and doctors...Read more

Health Management

Structured-reporting-in-cancer-imaging-reaching-the-quality-dimension-in-communication

2016 05 Jan

Medical imaging is uniquely positioned to play a pivotal role at many points in the cancer patient journey, from early detection as part of screening through to survivorship and/or end of life care.  Reliance on imaging to contribute to decision making is substantive; a review of Cancer Care Ontario’s Lung Diagnostic Pathway revealed 22 touch points...Read more

Health Management

Volume-15-issue-4-2015

2015 30 Dec

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IMAGING Management

Spectral-ct-transforms-shades-of-grey

2015 27 Dec

Radiographic images, such as x-rays, mammograms and computed tomography (CT), help detect diseases like cancer in its early stages when treatment can be most effective. As these images are in black and white, detecting the difference between healthy tissue and abnormalities can be difficult.  Now, a new technology called spectral (colour) computed tomography...Read more

IMAGING Management

Cancer-imaging-archive-on-the-move

2015 10 Dec

The Cancer Imaging Archive of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has found a new home at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). More than 40 terabytes of data have been transferred to UAMS from the archive's former home at Washington University in St. Louis. The archive's transfer coincided with the appointment of Fred Prior, PhD,...Read more

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Oncologic-imaging-in-the-spotlight-autumn-meetings

2015 08 Sep

Radiologists with an interest in cancer have a choice of three congresses in the next few weeks, allowing attendees to scan the horizon for what’s coming up and bringing the most cutting-edge developments in technology, cancer imaging and approaches to good practice to the forefront. European Society of Oncologic Imaging Meeting 11-12 September,...Read more