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The European Society of Radiology (ESR), represented by its President, Prof. Boris Brkljacic, participated in a series of successful meetings and events on the 10^th of December in Brussels to strengthen the position of medical imaging on the European Union (EU) health policy agenda.

In the afternoon, the ESR participated in the event entitled “Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan – Better access to cancer care in Europe?” hosted by EU40, a group of young Members of the European Parliament under...

December 2019 - A group of prominent European and North American members of the radiological community have collaborated to produce an important publication on the status of women in the field of radiology, highlighting positive developments as well as areas where greater progress is needed.

Published in European Radiology, the special report, ‘Women in Radiology: Gender diversity is not a metric – it is a tool for excellence’, reviews the current state of gender diversity in academic and...

Thursday, November 28, 2019 - The outcomes of the multicentre DENSE trial on breast cancer, which was conducted in The Netherlands and first presented at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2019, has now been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Presented by Prof. Carla H. van Gils at an ECR Clinical Trials in Radiology (CTiR) session, the results provide practical insights into the use of supplemental magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in screening for breast cancer, and...

The second Conference on Hybrid Imaging Live (CHILI 2.0), which took place on October 25, saw an increase in the number of people tuning in for the virtual meeting in comparison to last year’s debut meeting. A total of 4,064 people registered for CHILI 2.0 compared to 3,515 last year, representing an increase of 16 percent.

The conference, which was organised by the European Society of Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging (ESHI^MT) and the European Society of Radiology...

Brussels, 6 November 2019 – Under the auspices of the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Claudia Gamon, the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and Lung Cancer Europe (LuCE) have joined forces to organise an event at the European Parliament and publish a factsheet that aims to raise awareness of lung cancer and the need for increased visibility of the disease in European Union (EU) policies.

As November is lung cancer awareness month, and with...