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Datasets that are too small may lead researchers to overlook relationships between the brain and behavior, a new study finds.
- July 30, 2024Source: NBC CT
Dr. Reni Butler, a breast imager at Yale Cancer Center, joined NBC CT for this live interview discussing a new survey on women, breast density, and cancer risk.
- July 05, 2024
This large award recognizes a need for more effective and less expensive methods to screen for breast cancer.
- June 20, 2024
“When the study launched, even with operable pancreatic cancers, 90% of patients were still relapsing and dying from their cancer eventually,” said Dr. Michael Cecchini, the first author of the study and the co-director of the colorectal program at the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers at Smilow Cancer Hospital and YCC. “We sought to move chemotherapy up in their treatment regimen and give it before surgery to see if we could improve the outcome for our patients.”
- June 14, 2024Source: USA Today
Dr. Parisa Lotfi, an assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at the Yale Cancer Center, told USA TODAY that the post's claim about mammograms stimulating the growth of tumors and metastases is false. "There is absolutely no evidence that mammograms cause cancer," Lotfi said. "Screening with mammography reduces the risk of dying from breast cancer."
- June 12, 2024Source: Yale New Haven Health
Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) celebrated the second YNHHS Innovation Awards Ceremony, where five outstanding teams were each awarded $100,000 to bring their groundbreaking projects to life.
- June 11, 2024Source: Everyday Health
“More than half of mammograms performed in the U.S. now are 3D, and its use is increasing,” says John Lewin, MD, the chief of the breast imaging division at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut.
- June 05, 2024
Smilow Shares with Primary Care: Soft Tissue/Bony Lumps.
- May 24, 2024Source: Yale News
The findings of a new Yale study suggest physical frailty may be a target for intervention.
- May 10, 2024
The fifth annual early autism conference at Yale took place on Thursday, April 18, 2024, with approximately 100 participants. The event was hosted by the Yale Child Study Center Social and Affective Neuroscience of Autism (SANA) Program, directed by Emily Fraser Beedy Professor Kasia Chawarska.