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10/02/2025

09/30/2025

‘What are the odds that you will get breast cancer in the next few years? Soon, AI might tell you the answer

Researchers and companies are designing artificial-intelligence models to predict a woman’s near-future breast-cancer risk, as well as risks of lung cancer and other diseases. The AI algorithms are trained on mammograms from past patients, some of whom would go on to develop breast cancer, to pinpoint who is most at risk before the disease is visible to the human eye.

Clairity and DeepHealth are among the companies looking to soon bring their own predictive algorithms into the U.S. market, pushing AI beyond its current medical use as a diagnostic helper. The new tools could help doctors decide if a patient needs more screening or even preventive drugs….’

Health-tech companies are designing models that identify patients at risk of developing cancer, and who might need more screening or preventive care.

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.