Perhaps no one can appreciate the importance of early cancer detection as much as Izora Armstrong. That's because UVA Cancer Center researchers, using a first-of-its-kind hybrid breast imaging device, found what mammography, ultrasound, MRI and even a needle biopsy couldn't...

Published online by the leading journal Value in Health, the study assessed the current screening guidelines in terms of both cost effectiveness and fairness. The researchers concluded that extending the hotly-debated screening programme to younger women would have real benefits in terms of both economic efficiency and equity...

Younger women are likely to attend breast screening if the choice is offered to them, according to the findings of a study of 50,000 women published today in the Journal of Medical Screening...

In a ruling that could have "far-reaching" implications for genetic research and the medical industry, a U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet on Monday invalidated seven patents related to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, mutations of which have been linked to breast and ovarian cancer, the New York Times reports (Pollack/Schwartz, New York Times, 3/29)...