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Results from the Canadian National Breast Screening Study recently published in BMJ fueled another round in the ongoing debate about when women should be screened for breast cancer. The medical community can’t agree on what mammography screening should be, but this month’s E-News Exclusive highlights it needs to be.

— Jim Knaub, editor

A Woman’s Decision
By Jim Knaub

When should a woman have a mammogram? The catalyst of the current public flare-up in this ongoing debate is the recent New York Times article “Vast Study Casts Doubt on the Value of Mammograms” about results from the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS) published in BMJ.

While that study questions mammography’s value, the medical community clearly has not reached an agreement on when women should begin screening mammography and how often they should have it once they start. Genetics, family history, and other factors ultimately play into this question.

This debate over mammography has been going on for a long time, but it became a more public debate when the US Preventive Serves Task Force issued its 2009 recommendation that most women should begin getting mammograms at age 50 and have them every two years, which is a significant departure from most related organizations’ recommendation of annual mammograms beginning at age 40. So who is correct?

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Radiology's Future in Big Data

Op-Ed Suggests CT Increases Cancer Risk

New Ultrasound Method May Visualize Tumors

ACR Discusses Article on Breast Cancer
Screening Costs

MRI May Select Best Patients for Catheter Ablation

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Coming Soon?
Experts discuss the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and how radiology practices should prepare for this transition in health care. Read more »

Building a Low-Dose Culture
Learn how to implement this kind of culture where everyone from radiologists to ordering physicians to patients understands the importance of dose reduction. Read more »

Technology Update: MRI
The newest MRI offerings focus on increasing patient comfort, lowering noise, and expanding into more clinical areas. Read more »

Radiology’s Future in Big Data
Radiology Today interviewed imaging informatics expert Eliot Siegel, MD, about his thoughts on its future in radiology. Read more »

Op-Ed Suggests CT Increases Cancer Risk
CT imaging often is overused and may increase radiation exposure and thus cancer risk, according to an op-ed piece in the New York Times.

New Ultrasound Method May Visualize Tumors
Combining ultrasound with a contrast agent made of microsized bubbles may provide an alternate way of visualizing tumors, according to University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers.

ACR Discusses Article on Breast Cancer Screening Costs
The ACR provided a statement on the recent Annals of Internal Medicine article that suggests the American Cancer Society’s guidelines on breast cancer screening adds unnecessary costs.

MRI May Select Best Patients for Catheter Ablation
MRI may help predict which atrial fibrillation patients most likely will benefit from catheter ablation, according to Loyola University Medical Center researchers.

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