Research
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March 2009
Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Types
Breast cancer is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disease, varying substantially in incidence and mortality according to race/ethnicity. To better understand the clinical and pathological…
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March 2009
Ultrasound Changes Care of Some Patients with Rheumatic Conditions
The study included 62 patients. Results showed that, “approximately 50% of patients had a change in management following ultrasound evaluation,” said Srinivasan Harish, lead author of the study…
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February 2009
Benefits of ROE and DS System on Outpatient Imaging
In 2008, researchers from the University of Florida Health Center and Massachusetts General Hospital sought to determine the effect certain appropriateness criteria measures…
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February 2009
Cost Impact of Early Colorectal Cancer Detection
A recent study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology provided an in-depth analysis of long-term and phase-specific treatment costs related to colorectal cancer (CRC)…
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October 2008
Cost-Effectiveness in CT Angiography Confirmation of Internal Carotid Artery Occlusions
A Markov decision-analytic model was constructed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of CTA compared with catheter angiography in a hypothetical cohort of symptomatic patients with a screening examination…
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October 2008
PET Scanning and Alzheimer’s Disease
In this study, researchers in Finland performed PET scans of the brain on 10 patients with severe dementia to determine if the non-invasive imaging technique was as effective as biopsy…
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September 2008
Accuracy of CT Colonography in Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, yet studies estimate that only one-third of individuals at-risk for the disease actually undergo…
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March 2008
The Beneficial Impact of PET Scanning on Cancer Management
Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in clinical oncology as one of the most impactful and effective means of diagnostic imaging methodology. However, Medicare reimbursement…
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February 2008
Effect of CT on False Positive Diagnosis of Appendicitis and Perforation
The UCLA study found an 88% decrease in the rate of false positives among adults undergoing surgery for appendicitis, dropping from 24% in 1996 down to 3% in 2006. The study also identified…
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October 2007
Benefits of MRI in Detecting Breast Cancer
In this prospective comparison study, women at high risk for breast cancer were offered annual surveillance examinations, consisting of mammography, ultrasound, and MRI, at a single tertiary care breast center…
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