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The American Cancer Society recently made a revision in their recommendations on when women should begin to receive screening mammograms for breast cancer. According to UCSF Chief of Breast Imaging, Dr. Bonnie Joe, choosing to screen later or less often will result in fewer false positives but at a cost of lives lost to breast cancer. Early detection is the key to saving lives. 

Hyperpolarized MRI allows us to pinpoint cancers that could not be detected very well anatomically, and monitor their rate of progression. We can also learn if therapies have hit their target and measure quantitatively whether they did what was intended.

Getting preventive care is one of the most important steps you can take to manage your health. Screening can detect early cancers when the diseases are potentially more treatable and curable. 

UCSF’s Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the world’s largest observational study on Alzheimer’s disease, is pioneering the use of amyloid PET imaging as a diagnostic biomarker for a disease that afflicts over 5 million Americans.

When pain is precisely diagnosed and localized, we can treat it selectively. Through research and patient feedback, we're working to combat pain. 

Our research with advanced imaging aims to help the children suffering from juvenile arthritis that we are treating today, as well as children in the future.

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