Dear AuntMinnie Member,
We're pleased to announce that for the fourth straight year AuntMinnie.com is bringing you live streaming video of the proceedings of the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT, the annual meeting of the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT).
Starting at 7 a.m. Pacific time on Sunday, June 7, you'll be able to watch the ISCT proceedings live in San Francisco at isct.auntminnie.com. You'll be able to follow along with all of the excellent presentations from this prestigious meeting, including the high-stakes Workstation Face-Off on Monday afternoon. You'll even be able to submit questions that can be answered in real-time by ISCT presenters!
So bookmark the page today, and make sure your colleagues know. And also follow the meeting on Twitter using the hashtag #MDCT2015.
Mammo cuts cancer mortality 40%
We hate to sound like a broken record, but a new literature review published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates that, indeed, breast screening does reduce breast cancer mortality -- by 40%, according to an international panel of experts.
The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) performed a review of existing literature and found sufficient evidence of mammography's mortality reduction in women ages 50 to 74.
But the IARC research group was equivocal on whether screening reduced mortality in women ages 40 to 49, calling the strength of evidence "limited" in these younger women. The report also came to no conclusion regarding the effectiveness of adjunctive technologies such as MRI and digital breast tomosynthesis, citing what it called "inadequate" evidence.
Get the story by clicking here, or visit our Women's Imaging Community at women.auntminnie.com.
ISMRM wrap-up
Finally, visit our MRI Community for the latest story from the just-concluded International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting in Toronto.
Researchers from Oregon used a new MRI protocol for dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI scans that they believe could offer an improvement over existing technology -- and provide an early marker for treatment response to chemotherapy in breast cancer. Learn more by clicking here, or visit the community at mri.auntminnie.com.
