Week in Review: Radiopharmaceutical therapy tracker | Exam interpretation times | Mammography use declining?

The advance of theranostics is prompting development of new radiopharmaceutical therapies to treat cancer. To help our readers keep up with the trend, this week AuntMinnie launched a Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Tracker, which proved to be our top story. Click here to peruse the current list of agents — and rest assured that we’ll be updating it regularly.

Readers also showed interest in research from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) that reported a 113% increase in exam interpretation times between 2014 and 2023, particularly for CT and MR imaging. The week’s third most popular story highlighted a study that found a decline in mammography use among some groups of women — specifically, non-Hispanic white, Asian, those who are uninsured, and those between the ages of 40 to 49 — underscoring the need for “clear, risk-based screening communication and targeted strategies to promote guideline-concordant decision-making,” according to a team from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

Our fourth most-clicked article covered a New England Journal of Medicine study that described a software-based method that calculates fractional flow reserve from coronary angiography images in patients with intermediate coronary artery lesions, while the fifth outlined research that addressed the question of whether radiologists and/or AI can reliably identify lung abnormalities on x-ray (spoiler alert: perhaps not).

Take a look at the full list of the week’s top articles, below:

  1. Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Tracker
  2. Imaging exam interpretation times show sharp increase
  3. Mammography use declining among some groups of women
  4. Angiography-based FFR validated in patients with coronary artery disease  
  5. Can radiologists, AI reliably identify lung abnormalities on x-ray?
  6. PET/CT metric improves outcome predictions for Pluvicto patients
  7. ML models find key predictors, racial disparities in breast cancer
  8. Significant incidental lung findings on LDCT tied to other cancers
  9. New recommendations issued on tau PET imaging
  10. Modern EBRT reduces CVD risk in breast cancer patients
  11. Radiologist job listing analysis reveals employer patterns
  12. AI aging estimates based on chest x-rays linked to mortality
  13. Ultrasound MinnieCast, Episode 5: How POCUS is reshaping care
  14. Emphysema predicts CAC progression among LCS participants

Kate Madden Yee
Senior Editor
AuntMinnie.com