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Breast Cancer
CAD technology finds difficult-to-identify breast cancers, study shows
September 29th, 2005
ICAD, Inc. (ICAD), a provider of computer-aided detection (CAD) solutions that enable identification of cancer and other conditions early, announced that its Second Look CAD system was used in the "Evaluation of Breast Cancer with a Computer-Aided Detection System by Mammographic Appearance and Histopathology" study published in the September 1, 2005 edition of Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society. Study findings showed that CAD technology effectively identified 98% of the microcalcifications, 95% of the invasive lobular carcinomas, 89% of the mixed mass/microcalcification lesions and 84% of the masses in 273 women with confirmed breast cancer. The...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-29)
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