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Diagnostic Imaging (11/27) reports, “Automated volume breast ultrasound (AVBS) is equal in diagnostic accuracy to hand-held (HH) ultrasound, whether performed by a sonographer or mammography technologist,” researchers found. The findings of the 90-patient study were presented at the RSNA 2016 meeting.
MedPage Today (11/17, Bankhead) reports, “Younger patients with early breast cancer and those with low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) can qualify for accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI), according to an updated consensus statement from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).” The updated guidance “identified patients ≥50 as ‘suitable’ for APBI, which received a ‘cautionary’ recommendation for women 40 to 49 who met all other elements of suitability.” The expert panel “that developed the statement found women younger than 40 unsuitable for APBI.”
Newsweek (11/16, Clarke-Billings) reports, “Black women are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with advanced breast cancer as white women in England, according to Cancer Research UK and Public Health England.” About “25 percent of black African women and 22 percent of black Caribbean women diagnosed with breast cancer are picked up at stage three and four, compared to 13 percent of white British women.”