Breast Imaging

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) currently recommends that women begin breast cancer screening mammograms at age 40 and receive them every two years thereafter. Bonnie Joe, MD, PhD, Division Chief of Breast Imaging at UCSF’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, contends that biennial screenings are not frequent enough and the standard should instead be annual screenings.

The BMMR2 Challenge assembled eight teams from four countries to develop imaging-based models with high performance for predicting response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.

There has been a substantial rise in mastectomy rates for the treatment of breast cancer in the United States over the last decade.

Amie Lee, MD, contributed an editorial to Radiology, the journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) titled "Nipple-sparing Mastectomy in the Era of Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy: The Accuracy of Preoperative MRI." Dr. Lee is an associate professor in the breast imaging division in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco.

On May 9, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) proposed a significant change to current breast cancer screening guidelines.

The resumption of in-patient care at Mount Zion Hospital in 2020 after many years as an outpatient site presented an opportunity for imaging expansion.

When 53-year-old photographer and single mom Pia Navales went to the Berkeley Outpatient Center for her annual mammogram in December 2021, she had no reason to suspect any problems. The mammogram identified three masses on her left breast. After a follow-up mammogram and ultrasound with UCSF Professor of Clinical Radiology Rita Freimanis, MD, Navales drove from Berkeley across the Bay Bridge to get a core biopsy and fine needle aspiration done at the UCSF Breast Imaging Clinic at Mission Bay.

The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce that Maggie Chung, MD, has joined our faculty as an assistant professor in residence in the Breast Imaging section starting on March 6, 2023. 

The UCSF Radiology CME Program will be hosting the UCSF Breast Imaging CME course at the Fairmont Orchid Resort and Spa on the Big Island of Hawaii. We hope you will join us from Sunday, February 26, 2023, to Friday, March 3, 2023, for five half-day morning sessions with a full day off on Wednesday.

UCSF Radiology is excited to congratulate Heather Greenwood, MD, on her recognition as a Fellow of the Society of Breast Imaging. Dr. Greenwood is an associate Professor of Clinical Radiology in the Breast Imaging section at UCSF Radiology. The honor was bestowed on Dr. Greenwood at the RSNA 2022 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting.