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Screening Mammography

In the commentary article “Mammogram Trials” published recently in Academic Radiology , the scientific evidence supporting screening mammography is questioned . Contrary to the article’s plural tit...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

Screening Mammography Update and Review of Publications Since Our Report in the New England Journal of Medicine on the Magnitude of the Problem in the United States

Because the four letters of correspondence describe a variety of concerns, I have organized them according to their general topic and in some instances re-emphasized data from the original reports ...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

Response to “Screening Mammography Update and Review of Publications Since Our Report in the New England Journal of Medicine on the Magnitude of the Problem in the United States”

In his recent article, “Screening Mammography: Update and Review of Publications Since Our Report in the New England Journal of Medicine on the Magnitude of the Problem in the United States,” Dr. A...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

Respiratory Disease

An Educational Update on Respiratory Diseases Many radiologists are working harder than ever before, and radiology is such a rapidly evolving field that many of its practitioners find it challengi...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

Research Challenges and Opportunities for Clinically Oriented Academic Radiology Departments

Between 2004 and 2012, US funding for the biomedical sciences decreased to historic lows. Health-related research was crippled by receiving only 1/20th of overall federal scientific funding. Despit...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

Requested Education on Screening Mammography

The stated conclusion of Archie Bleyer’s article, “Screening Mammography,” is “until we have better screening procedures that identify who really has cancer and needs to be treated, the risk of ove...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

RadPath

Rationale and Objectives The current paradigm of cancer diagnosis involves uncoordinated communication of findings from radiology and pathology to downstream physicians. Discordance between these ...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

Predicting High Imaging Utilization Based on Initial Radiology Reports

Rationale and Objectives Imaging utilization has significantly increased over the last two decades, and is only recently showing signs of moderating. To help healthcare providers identify patients...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

Overemphasis on Overdiagnosis

It is disheartening to write this response to our own Academic Radiology . The commentary using the misnomer “Mammogram Trials” by Jha and Ware describes only a single trial—the outlier—the only ra...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1

Overdiagnosis in Lung Cancer Screening can be Reduced to a Low, Manageable Level via a Multilayered Strategy Involving Perfecting Reporting Systems, Restricting Screening to High-Risk Groups, Developing Better Risk Stratification Models, and Improving Management Algorithms

That overdiagnosis exists in any type of cancer screening is not a point of contention, as I discussed in my article . It is an inexorable consequence of our incomplete knowledge of the biological ...

Dec 31, 2015 Academic Radiology, Volume 23, Issue 1
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