Amerigo Allegretto
Associate Editor at Aunt Minnie
Associate Editor at https://t.co/ihVmg5lNEZ. Pittsburgh-based. Retweets ≠ endorsements. He/him.
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1 week ago |
auntminnie.com | Amerigo Allegretto
Imaging societies and policy experts are watching as the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025, which aims to streamline prior authorization processes, makes its rounds in Congress. The bill was reintroduced on May 21 by Senators Roger Marshall, MD (R-KS), and Mark Warner (D-VA) and Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Ami Bera, MD (D-CA), and John Joyce, MD (R-PA).
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1 week ago |
auntminnie.com | Amerigo Allegretto
Undergoing regular breast cancer screening starting at age 40 leads to better health outcomes for women, according to research published May 30 in Radiology: Imaging Cancer. A team led by Jean Seely, MD, from the University of Ottawa in Canada found that compared with symptomatic breast cancers, screen-detected cancers in women age 40 or older led to lower odds of advanced cancer, mastectomy, and breast cancer-related death.
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auntminnieeurope.com | Amerigo Allegretto
Abbreviated MRI and contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) may be the best supplemental imaging methods for women with dense breasts, a study published on 21 May in The Lancet found. A team led by Prof. Fiona Gilbert from the University of Cambridge, U.K., found that both modalities detected three times as many invasive cancers compared with automated breast ultrasound (ABUS). And cancers detected by MRI and CEM were found at half the size of those detected by ABUS.
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1 week ago |
auntminnieeurope.com | Amerigo Allegretto
The degree of background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) affects how well breast MRI performs, according to research published on 27 May in Radiology. Minimal or mild BPE is tied to higher sensitivity and specificity, while moderate or marked BPE is linked to lower diagnostic performance, suggest findings by Dr. Sonja Bechyna and Dr. Pascal Baltzer from the Medical University of Vienna.
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1 week ago |
auntminnieeurope.com | Amerigo Allegretto
The degree of background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) affects how well breast MRI performs, according to research published on 27 May in Radiology. Minimal or mild BPE is tied to higher sensitivity and specificity, while moderate or marked BPE is linked to lower diagnostic performance, suggest findings by Dr. Sonja Bechyna and Dr. Pascal Baltzer from the Medical University of Vienna.
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