A survey of breast imaging fellowship programs: current status of curriculum and training in the United States and Canada.

Purpose: The Society of Breast Imaging and the Education Committee of the ACR Breast Commission conducted a survey of breast imaging fellowship programs to determine the status of fellowship curricula, help identify strengths and potential areas for improvement, and assess the current demand for fellowship programs.

Methods: In 2012, a two-part survey was emailed to breast imaging fellowship directors from 72 fellowship programs.

Results: Of the 66 respondents, a total of 115 positions were identified.

An institutional strategy to increase minority recruitment to therapeutic trials.

Purpose: Participation in therapeutic clinical trials rarely reflects the race and ethnic composition of the patient population. To meet National Institutes of Health-mandated goals, strategies to increase participation are required. We present a framework for institutional enhancement of minority clinical trial accrual.

The ACR/Society of Breast Imaging Resident and Fellowship Training Curriculum for Breast Imaging, updated.

The education committees of the ACR Commission on Breast Imaging and the Society of Breast Imaging have revised the resident and fellowship training curriculum to reflect the current state of breast imaging in the United States. The original curriculum, created by the Society of Breast Imaging in 2000, had been updated only once before, in 2006. Since that time, a number of significant changes have occurred in the way mammography is acquired, how adjunctive breast imaging methods are used, and how pathology is assessed.

Pathologic outcomes of nonmalignant papillary breast lesions diagnosed at imaging-guided core needle biopsy.

Purpose: To determine the upstage rate from nonmalignant papillary breast lesions obtained at imaging-guided core needle biopsy (CNB) and if there are any clinical, imaging, or pathologic features that can be used to predict eventual upstaging to malignancy.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective case review was institutional review board approved and HIPAA compliant, with a waiver of informed consent. A database search (from January 2001 to March 2010) was performed to find patients with a nonmalignant papillary breast lesion diagnosed at CNB.

Detection of breast cancer with addition of annual screening ultrasound or a single screening MRI to mammography in women with elevated breast cancer risk.

Context: Annual ultrasound screening may detect small, node-negative breast cancers that are not seen on mammography. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may reveal additional breast cancers missed by both mammography and ultrasound screening.

Objective: To determine supplemental cancer detection yield of ultrasound and MRI in women at elevated risk for breast cancer.