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Breast cancer awareness month

Image Maker: This Scientist Was Inspired by the Possibilities for Improving Cancer Detection

Emily Niles
October 19, 2022

In the late ’90s, Serge Muller urged his mother to go to a breast cancer screening just to be safe. It turned out to be a pivotal moment in both their lives.

“Her cancer was discovered because I insisted that she participate in a breast cancer screening she wanted to skip,” he reflects. “At that time, I really had the impression it saved her life.”

A Game-Changer for Breast-Cancer Diagnostics

Jane Nicholls
October 20, 2021
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The Breast Institute of New Zealand is the culmination of Dr. Monica Saini’s vision for a revolutionary private breast clinic. “I wanted to create a centre where we do the highest quality imaging, and can be an education and research platform,” says Dr. Saini, a breast radiologist who trained in her native United States. “We are a place for women to come and learn about themselves.”

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GE Healthcare, GenesisCare Partner to Tackle Two Biggest Health Burdens Globally, Deliver Improved Cancer and Cardiovascular Care to Patients around the World

November 09, 2020
  • The multi-year strategic partnership will enable GenesisCare to offer patients greater access to leading technology, with a plan to explore further collaborations to improve cancer diagnosis, treatment and cardiovascular care
  • The agreement is valued at more than USD 130 million over the next five years, including imaging technologies, digital solutions, clinical education and services 
  • Together, GenesisCare and GE Healthcare aim to achieve earlier, faster and more confident cancer diagnosis and more precise intervention and individualiz

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On The Bright Side: This Diagnostic Tool Points To The Future In Breast Cancer Detection

Peter C. Beller
October 21, 2020
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Since they first appeared in the 1960s, mammography machines have come to symbolize the power of medical imaging technology to help combat breast cancer. But for women whose mammograms — X-ray images of the breast — turn up something unusual, the path to diagnosis can be lengthy and full of anxiety, sometimes taking weeks after the initial screening.

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Mammography

Image Is Everything: This Industry-First Breast Biopsy Tool May Help Get Answers To Patients Faster

John H Tibbetts
November 30, 2019
Many patients wait long, anxious days for biopsy results, hoping for good news but bracing for the worst. The problem is especially pronounced for breast cancer patients, who often wait even longer — several weeks — just to schedule an MR-guided biopsy. MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, enables doctors to take a biopsy — a tissue sample — with a needle from the location of interest within the breast.
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Medical Imaging

Sharing Is Caring: Meet The Team Of Women Who Designed A More Comfortable Mammogram

Liza Smith
October 29, 2019

When it comes to fighting breast cancer, mammograms are often considered the first line of defense.

However, many women avoid mammograms because of fear and anxiety from the potential result and exam discomfort1. The screening compliance rate has been shown to be lower in women who experienced pain during their mammogram compared to those who did not2.

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Medical Imaging

All Aboard: In Singapore, A Mobile Mammography Service Aids Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

Denise Nah
October 28, 2019
Not long ago in Singapore, Anne Bibbings stood in line to get on a bus parked on the street. The 47-year-old teacher wasn’t going anyplace in particular. She was there to get a mammogram.
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Mammography

3-D Mammography Tech: A new tool in detecting breast cancer set to make a difference in Singapore

September 20, 2017
While Singapore boasts one of the most advanced, efficient, and affordable healthcare systems in the world, medical officials in the city state constantly seek new ways to improve and address important health issues.
Encouraging more older women to have regular breast screenings is one of the current focus areas for local health authorities.

Why? Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Singapore today.
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Cancer

This Paris Clinic Can Diagnose Breast Cancer In A Single Day

Tomas Kellner
November 29, 2016
The suburb of Villejuif in the south of Paris will never rival the Eiffel Tower as a destination site. Yet every day the brightly lit waiting rooms and cavernous hallways of the Gustave Roussy clinic located here fill with hundreds of visitors. Some of them have traveled thousand of miles in pursuit of hope.
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Cancer

Seeing the Unseen: Ultrasound's New Role in the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 28, 2016
Patti Beyer is a positive person by nature. But the 64-year-old retired educator was concerned after she requested, and received, a breast ultrasound-screening exam. After years of normal mammograms her doctor said she needed to follow up with a needle biopsy. Something was wrong.
She got the dreaded news a few days later while waiting for her luggage in the Washington D.C. airport: it was invasive breast cancer.
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