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A newly released guideline on colorectal cancer screening offers recommendations for various alternatives for colorectal cancer detection, including — for the first time — radiological examination by CT colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy.
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Depending on which study you're looking at, the use of computer-aided detection (CAD) with mammography improves accuracy slightly, boosts inaccuracy slightly, or does little to impact accuracy either way.
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After a countywide smoking ban was implemented in Indiana's Monroe County, hospital admissions for heart attacks dropped 70% for non-smokers, but not for smokers, according to a new study.
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Clinicians changed the intended care of more than one in three cancer patients as the result of FDG-PET scan findings, according to a study of data from the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR), published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO).
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Early feedback on a new ultrasound technology suggests that it is bringing important improvements to the table for the treatment of heart-rhythm disorders.
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While it is not without risks, optical colonoscopy (OC) has long been the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening.
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Accompanying the growing demand for radiological services across the country is the growing physical size of the patients requesting those services. This demand has brought new challenges in terms of obesity and radiology. Can good quality images be obtained from an obese patient, and can that obese patient even fit on a machine?
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For years, Robert Lefsrud, MD, a radiologist with a subspecialty in neuroradiology and musculoskeletal radiology, was a member of a large and busy radiology group providing services in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Two years ago, he and a colleague decided to branch out and form their own company, St. Croix Radiology Consultants in Dellwood, MN.