CEUS Detects Abdominal Cancers without Radiation

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CEUS Detects Abdominal Cancers without Radiation

Business Wire

09-28-11

Abdominal cancers may be detected sooner, with more specificity, and without exposing patients to ionizing radiation using a simple "contrast-enhanced ultrasound" (CEUS) scan, according to preliminary results of a new Canadian study.

"This readily available ultrasound tool can replace some CT scans, allowing us to accurately diagnose these cancers without radiation and at a significantly lower cost," according to Dr. Stephanie Wilson, Professor of Radiology at the University of Calgary and a practicing radiologist at Foothills Medical Center in Calgary. Wilson described her work at the 26th annual Advances in Contrast Ultrasound conference in Chicago.

By comparison, expensive "big box" imaging tools like CT, PET and SPECT (nuclear) imaging all expose patients to ionizing radiation, which can increase an individual's lifetime risk of cancer, according to Wilson.

>>In 72 patients with liver masses, CEUS allowed physicians to confidently identify and characterize all of the masses while non-enhanced CT missed part or all of the mass (32), or failed to allow physicians to confidently characterize the mass (40).

In 35 patients with kidney masses, CEUS showed the masses to be either vascular or avascular (indicating the presence of cancer). Non-enhanced CT showed 30 of those masses but did not permit confident characterization of any of them.<<

[KC]

1. That is interesting

and really fascinating. Thank you for posting this article!

[trotsky]

2. Hooray for SCIENCE! n/t