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Consolidation reigns in radiation oncology

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Solo practices in radiation oncology dropped significantly between 2015 and 2023, while the number of large practices increased by more than half, according to a study published March 4 in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics.

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PET links depressive symptoms to Alzheimer’s brain pathology

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The finding is from an analysis of 300 participants who underwent multiple F-18 flortaucipir tau PET scans between 2015 and 2022 and suggests depression could be a modifiable risk factor for the disease, noted lead author Daniel Talmasov, MD, and colleagues.

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Deep learning boosts MRI's ability to identify endometriosis

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Moassefi and colleagues conducted a study that included 395 women with endometriosis that had been pathologically confirmed between 2015 and 2024. "However, [convolutional neural networks], which analyze all pixel values and their correlations, could potentially capture these subtle features or localized lesions."

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Nonsmokers also benefit from lung cancer screening

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In China, an initiative called the Guangzhou Lung-Care Project was begun in December 2015 to assess lung cancer detection in the general population. But research has shown an uptick in lung cancer among younger, nonsmoking people, particularly in Asia, Li and colleagues explained. The project continued through July 2021.

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FDA updates list of cleared VR, augmented reality devices, with radiology leading the way

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The administration has now authorized a total of 69 medical products that incorporate AR/VR since 2015, including 28 in radiology.

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Attrition is not a primary driver of the current national radiologist workforce shortage

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About 13% of radiologists left the workforce in this fashion between 2015 and 2019, with the specialty consistently having lower attrition relative to other providers.

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Triple-negative breast cancers impact female populations differently

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per year from 2015 to 2019); Hispanic women aged 65 years or older (2.3% per year from 2010 to 2019); and Black women (1.4% per year from 2010 to 2016 and 4.3% from 2016 to 2019). To compare, the triple-negative disease incidence remained unchanged among non-Hispanic white women.

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