Pink Door Imaging Center

01/17/2025

‘The breast-cancer death rate has dropped 44% since 1989, thanks to better treatments and screening. It is still the leading cause of cancer death for women under 50. ‘

Trends in breast, prostate and lung cancer are shifting who is most at-risk.

12/13/2024

‘Some 300,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer each year. But an additional 50,000 are diagnosed with “stage zero” breast cancer, also called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, which occurs when there are cancer cells in a woman’s milk duct but not in her breast tissue. The disease itself poses little risk but can turn into the more dangerous, invasive cancer….’

• This only applies for patients diagnosed with Stage 0 breast cancer (DCIS)- where the cancer cells are confined to the milk ducts and for those with small cancer.
• The study period was only two years, may not be long enough to know the true impact of monitoring closely without surgical treatment.
• No treatment and monitoring every six months may not be appropriate in younger women who have a longer time for the cancer to progress to an invasive stage.

Women with a type of low-risk cancer might not have to rush aggressive treatment, doctors say.

10/23/2024

Today, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) published an interim update to its clinical guidance, Practice Bulletin 179: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Screening in Average-Risk Women. The new update recommends that all individuals at average risk of breast cancer should begin screening mammography at 40 years of age.

The new update recommends that all individuals at average risk of breast cancer should begin screening mammography at 40 years of age.

10/17/2024

Becky, our office manager turned a year younger today. Wishing her a very happy birthday!

10/15/2024

…Use of the Ovarian-Adnexal Imaging Reporting and Data System (O-RADS) ultrasound (US) risk score may prevent unnecessary surgery for a significant number of women with ovarian cystic lesions and no acute symptom presentation, according to findings from a new multicenter study…

In a multicenter study of over 370 women who had surgery for ovarian cystic lesions without acute symptoms, researchers found that 42 percent of the resected lesions were deemed to have an O-RADS ultrasound risk score of 2, which has less than a one percent chance of malignancy.

10/11/2024

According to new survey data, nonadherence is not for lack of concern about the disease—75% of the women surveyed reported being concerned about their breast health.

10/08/2024

"Early diagnosis of ovarian cancer is vital, and we are pleased to see this research demonstrate that there are more accurate ways of using ultrasound," Sundard and colleagues said in a statement released by the university. "The faster and earlier ovarian cancer is diagnosed the easier it is to treat and the more successful the outcomes."

Sundard's group investigated six diagnostic tests for identifying ovarian cancer. The team determined that a model called IOTA (International Ovarian Tumour Analysis) ADNEX (Assessment of Different NEoplasias in the adneXa) -- which evaluates ultrasound features -- had the best accuracy for this purpose, identifying 96% of ovarian cancer cases in the study cohort.

An ultrasound test can identify 96% of ovarian cancers in postmenopausal women, researchers have reported.

09/26/2024

Early diagnosis=cure for Breast cancer.

08/17/2024

Class of 2028- Nina Sarika Shetty

06/10/2024

04/24/2024

…But some doctors and researchers say it is likely that there are too many women undergoing removal of their ovaries when they don’t need to. Doctors say the only women who should undergo an oophorectomy are those with, or at high risk of, ovarian cancer, which affects about 1% of women. ….

Removing ovaries with a hysterectomy might increase risk of heart disease, stroke and dementia