Second Chance for Cure: Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy in Oligometastatic Disease.

Purpose: Local ablative therapy, such as radiotherapy or surgery, plays a key role in treatment of patients with oligometastatic disease. Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) comes to the fore as a safe and effective treatment for patients with a limited number of metastases, even those located in hard-to-reach body sites. Many researchers have suggested that metastatsis-directed therapy could improve long-term progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with oligometastases.

Stereotactic radiosurgery as a successful method to control meningeal metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland: A case report.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the lacrimal gland is a rare tumor. In addition, considering the lack of data on large groups of patients there is no standard of care to treat patients with multiple meningeal metastases of ACC. A two-year analysis of the course of the disease in a patient with synchronous oligometastatic ACC of the lacrimal gland that was treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is presented.

Radiology department, human factors and organizational perspectives: using action research to improve patient safety.

Background: Action research is a participatory research method based on active cooperation between researchers and subjects. In clinical practice, action research enables active involvement of workers in developing and implementing actions promoting patient safety. This article describes a participatory action research project that was conducted in the radiology department of a tertiary care university hospital.

JOURNAL CLUB: Is screening MRI indicated for women with a personal history of breast cancer? Analysis based on biopsy results.

Objective: American College of Radiology and Society of Breast Imaging guidelines call for routine breast MRI screening only for women with the highest risk profiles for development of breast cancer, suggesting that screening of women at lower risk might result in an increased frequency of false-positive biopsy results. The purpose of this study was to test this assumption by comparing MRI-guided biopsy outcomes of lesions detected at MRI screening of women with a personal history of breast cancer with outcomes among women with genetic or familial high risk.

Materials And Methods: Outcomes of 130 MRI-guided biopsies were analyzed.

A novel functional infrared imaging system coupled with multiparametric computerised analysis for risk assessment of breast cancer.

Objective: We evaluated a functional three-dimensional (3D) infrared imaging system (3DIRI) coupled with multiparametric computer analysis for risk assessment of breast cancer. The technique provides objective risk assessment for the presence of a malignant tumour based on automated parameters derived from a clinically known training set.

Methods: Following institutional review board approval, we recruited 434 women for this prospective multicentre trial, including 256 healthy woman undergoing routine screening mammography with BI-RADS-1 results and 178 women with newly diagnosed breast cancer.