Dear Women's Imaging Insider,
In our last Insider of 2011, we're highlighting research presented at the RSNA 2011 meeting on the efficacy of breast ultrasound and how using it as a screening modality affects a practice's workload.
The topic is of particular interest since the state of Connecticut passed legislation mandating that women with dense breast tissue be informed of their status and encouraged to speak with their doctors about further imaging options, such as ultrasound. Since then, Connecticut radiologists have been performing many more screening ultrasound exams.
At the RSNA meeting, teams from Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Hospital of Central Connecticut weighed in on how the increase in ultrasound imaging has affected their practices. Click here to discover what they found.
Once you've read our feature, take a look at what else is going on in the Women's Imaging Digital Community:
- Learn about how many of the elderly are still receiving screening exams such as mammography, even though clinical guidelines recommend against them.
- Find out about the controversy from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium over complication rates from accelerated partial-breast irradiation.
- Read the latest in the ongoing debate on the efficacy of mammography screening, this time from the U.K.
- Check out a study that found that mammography screening reduces breast cancer mortality by almost 50%.
- Read about an RSNA 2011 paper on the ability of digital breast tomosynthesis to detect and characterize masses in dense breast tissue.
As always, if you have a comment, report, or article idea to share about any aspect of women's imaging, I invite you to contact me.
Happy holidays, and the best to you and yours in 2012!
