Emily Hayes | Authors

February 01, 2008

Greater utilization of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI at the University of California, San Diego, over a 6-year period helped improve surgery planning for tough breast cancer cases without hiking mastectomy rates

December 01, 2007

Buoyed by effective postprocessing techniques, modern multislice CT has swept away some of the modality's limitations in visualizing the complex pancreas and created new challenges for radiologists in assessing incidentally detected lesions

December 01, 2007

The lack of an effective, detailed workup algorithm for positive results in multicenter lung cancer screening trials leads to a lower cancer yield from invasive procedures and later diagnoses for participants

November 01, 2007

Compared with optical colonoscopy, CT colonography achieves similar outcomes with a fraction of the number of polypectomies

October 01, 2007

Conventional wisdom holds that DCIS consists of malignant cells that have not invaded other tissue, but László Tabár, MD, has identified subtypes that he thinks are actually invasive and merely mimic DCIS. Fragmented casting (as seen on the page 1 image) and "snakeskin-like" calcifications, appearing either alone or with a mass on the mammogram, are particularly menacing, he maintains.