Week in review: Breast cancer RT and skin cancer risk | AI flags rare tumors | Cannabis and bowel motility

Dear AuntMinnie Member,

Our most highly viewed story this week reported on a concerning study revealing a higher risk for subsequent skin cancer – including melanoma – in patients who received radiation therapy for breast cancer. Although the risk is still small, Stanford University researchers believe their findings may help inform follow-up care in these patients. Click here for all of the details.

AI could be useful in identifying rare imaging findings not typically spotted in daily reading practice. Our second most popular story shares how an algorithm was able to flag rare tumors on upper arm bones shown on the periphery of chest x-ray images.

Nuclear medicine providers need to be familiar with how cannabis affects bowel motility when performing gastric emptying scans, according to another study generating significant page views this week on AuntMinnie.com.

Furthermore, a safety protocol that includes intrapartum ultrasound leads to improved neonatal outcomes, including less neonatal morbidity and fewer infants being delivered in unexpected positions.

A technical limitation of dark-field systems for chest x-rays may have been overcome. After applying a technique to adjust for photon scattering that leads to unwanted artifacts, the researchers from Germany were able to produce better images. How did they do it? Click here to learn more.

See the full list below of our most popular stories of the week:

1. Does breast radiation therapy increase risk of skin cancer?
2. AI flags rare humeral bone tumors on chest x-rays
3. Cannabis may influence bowel motility
4. Using ultrasound before operational birth improves neonatal outcomes
5. Dark-field chest x-ray takes step forward
6. Tracking breast cancer method of detection shows impact of screening
7. GE HealthCare, MGB to integrate foundation models into research
8. Social factors influence adherence to incidental lung nodule follow-up
9. Virtual reality reduces interventional radiology procedure pain, anxiety
10. Image-to-text strategy helps ChatGPT read thyroid ultrasound images
11. CT-FFR shows how smoking affects heart volume-to-myocardial mass ratio
12. Imaging surveillance suggested for radial scars found on DBT
13. MRI shows effects of high blood pressure on brain
14. Groups aim to standardize nuclear medicine imaging of CV infections