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..Knowledge of these elements combined with more precise indications should result in improved patient management while avoiding overtreatment or unnecessary anxiety-producing examinations...

..Nevertheless, the financial constraints represent a major handicap. It is not possible to obtain an economic balance with rates based on the cost and depreciation of 1.5T imagers that are half the price...

..This issue is increasingly relevant as less invasive surgical techniques, such as laparoscopic surgeries, are becoming more commonplace for lower stage cancers. Currently, MRI is the most widely used modality for preoperative planning...

..The sensitivity of CT was 91% with a specificity of 95%. These results allowed us to determine wich CT criteria were accurate and reproducible to be a helpfull for therapeutic choice and to avoid laparotomy without optimal surgery...

..The role of PET begins to be more clear in case of need global assessment before radical surgery. A multidisciplinary approach is essential to perform rational treatment planning and avoid partial surgery...

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..Its use reasoned by respecting the indications recognized as useful and validated for the clinical plan is an imperative condition to avoid noxious assumptions of responsibility of the patients...

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..The diagnosis of a high grade sarcoma must be considered in these patients and any doubt should be resolved with a biopsy to avoid tragic consequences of missed sarcoma...

..Combined analysis: tumoral volume, anaemia and vascular parameters before and in the course of treatment allows a strong correlation with the risk of local recurrence and global survival...

..For women carrying a deleterous mutation on BRCA1/2 a salpingo-oophorectomy is the only way, only the time of this surgery is debatable...

..The FNMR (Fédération Nationale des médecins radiologues) try to produce such tool with the OPIM (Observatoire pour l'imagerie). It seems important than public radiologists think about it...

..To assess the MR imaging (MRI) in initial decision making of endometrial carcinoma...

..Towards evidence-based radiology. What is the place for radiologists (diagnosis or interventional) in this new very popular paradigm?..

..Indeed, the ultimate goal in early stage ovarian carcinoma is to not impair by inadequate management the high chance of a cure...

..With the advent of digital mammography with electronic zoom capabilities, we have sought to determine the need for geometric magnification for the evaluation of clusters of microcalcifications...

..General rules for this irradiation (doses, volumes) and principal results will be presented...

..To assess the MR imaging (MRI) findings in symptomatic tamoxifen treated-women with abnormal transvaginal sonography...

..New and much debated data of the endometrial cancer concerning the preoperative assessment of myometrial invasion, the surgical staging, and the adjuvant treatment...

..Techniques of the main procedures are addressed herein, as well as their respective morbidity and indications. Given its complexity, this surgery should be reserved to specialized teams, working in specialized centers...

..The aim of the study was to report a series of 40 patients with PTSTS, with analysis of their clinico-pathological characteristics, management, and prognostic factors...

..The aim of this retrospective study was to establish the rationale parameters that justify this decision for newly diagnosed sarcomas...

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..Early recognition of malignancy enables appropriate diagnostic work-up, including biopsy, and optimal management...

..Precise exams protocols depending on lesions, on treatment methods and patients are demanded. Close cooperation between radiation oncologists, physicists and radiologists is not only a wish but becomes a necessity...

..CONCLUSION: An early identification and aggressive medical and surgical intervention has the potential for long-term survival...

..Active collaboration between radiologists and radiation oncologists is needed to define new acquisition modalities and practical ways of co-interpretation...

..In the ideal model of the shared decision, doctor and patient progress together towards medical decision, in this case, the patient is not alone facing a choice, and in all cases, he is never alone...

..This case highlights the polymorphic aspects of the gestational choriocarcinoma and stresses the importance of a betaHCG assessment anytime abnormal symptoms occur in the outcome of a pregnancy...