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Why You Might Want AI Reading Your Next Mammogram, featuring Dr. Alyssa Watanabe
"In addition to enhancing cancer detection, the use of AI may also reduce unnecessary biopsies and callbacks for additional imaging.”
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What to Know About Your Liver Scan, featuring Dr. Suzanne Palmer
"Many types of liver lesions share characteristics, benign tumors can mimic malignant tumors, and liver masses can be easily missed altogether on a liver scan."
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How Prostate MRI Can Improve Screening Accuracy, featuring Dr. Vikram Hatti
"A prostate MRI can help reduce the number of men who are over-diagnosed with cancer and can help prevent unnecessary biopsies and/or treatment."
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A Practical Guide to Understanding BIRADS, featuring Dr. David Cline
"For patients, their BIRADS score is there to help let them know what they need to do next. It allows for easy tracking and follow-ups, so patients get what they need when they need it.”
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Diagnosing Brain Tumors, featuring Dr. Michael Rozenfeld
"Many of these tumors benefit from advanced subspecialized imaging techniques, such as diffusion tensor imaging and functional MRI which can aid in surgical planning."
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Navigating a Liver Cancer Diagnosis, featuring Dr. Richard Semelka
"While a biopsy is better than CT, it’s not better than MRI. It’s also important to realize that if you’re an expert, you should know when a biopsy is necessary and when it’s not. It’s very circumstantial."
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The Role of Imaging in Lung Cancer Detection and Staging, featuring Dr. Darko Pucar
"Benign lung nodules can look similar to lung cancer on a chest CT scan. This puts patients at risk of a false-positive. Or, a malignant mass may be dismissed as benign."
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How Prostate MRI Can Improve Diagnostic Accuracy, featuring Dr. Vikram Hatti
"Prostate MRI can help reduce the number of men who are over-diagnosed with cancer and can prevent unnecessary biopsies and/or treatment."
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Understanding Rectal Cancer MRI, featuring Dr. Vikram Hatti
"Rectal MRI is usually done after a biopsy, to confirm that the rectal polyp is cancerous. It's done predominantly for staging and treatment planning."
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Understanding a cancer diagnosis is a crucial part of treatment planning. But medical imaging is complex and a lot of myths get passed around.
To debunk the most common myths about cancer imaging, we asked a handful of the nation’s top oncological radiologists to share the truth about popular misconceptions. Here are 8 cancer imaging myths, debunked.
featuring Dr. Arif Sheikh
"There’s a perception among patients that anything with uptake is abnormal. This is not always true and can cause unnecessary alarm and concern."
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featuring Dr. Arif Sheikh
"The two tests are complimentary and that’s where the nuance comes in. It involves taking the information and looking at it collectively."
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featuring Dr. Darko Pucar
"A PET scan for lung cancer also has the capability to detect cancer in lymph nodes and organs that appear morphologically normal on a chest CT scan."
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A Mammogram Second Opinion Helped Me from Thousands of Miles Away
“I was thousands of miles away from my home country and completely confused by my mammogram results. I had no idea if this meant I had cancer..."
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Second Opinion Catches Rare Gastrinoma
"When I first heard my diagnosis, I had so many questions. I was also panicking because I had a flight to China the very next day. I needed to see a specialist urgently. Sadly, that can take quite a long time..."
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Second Opinion Catches Bile Duct Cancer Misdiagnosis
“Unfortunately, this type of misdiagnosis can happen easily if the reading radiologist doesn’t have adequate experience diagnosing liver lesions. Differentiating one type from another is extremely difficult.”
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Understanding My Abnormal Mammogram
"When I got the abnormal mammogram and ultrasound report letter, I felt as though I didn’t have any guidance. No one talked to me. No one explained..."
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Second Opinion Catches Missed Brain Lesions Suggestive of MS
"My second opinion results were quite alarming - there were not 4 lesions, but 22. Twenty-two! They were small, but they were most definitely there."
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