Imaging experts weigh in on screening controversy
November 17th 2009Despite the hubbub, breast imaging researchers saw nothing new in the findings of Dr. Esserman’s group. Daniel Kopans, MD, a professor of radiology at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, called her observation about mammography catching nonlethal cancers but missing aggressive ones “a fundamental concept that is older than I am. Mammography saves lives by finding moderate- and slow-growing cancer that will kill in five or more years without diagnosis and treatment,” according to Dr. Kopans.
CMS nixes CT colonography screening
June 19th 2009Bucking the tide of medical professional opinion, CMS decided against granting payment for CT colonography as a screening test for colorectal cancer. CMS ruled that the clinical evidence remains inadequate to conclude that CTC is appropriate for that role.
CT-related radiation blamed for up to 2% of US cancers
December 1st 2007A New England Journal of Medicine review article is highlighting the cancer risks of computed tomography at the same time that hundreds of scientific presentations and new product announcements at the 2007 RSNA meeting are fueling the continued growth of multislice CT.