Breast cancer is one of radiology’s most common — and most litigated — diagnoses. The 9th edition of Topics in Breast Imaging goes beyond routine updates to spotlight the breakthroughs and pitfalls shaping your practice today.
In this online video course, Dr. R. James Brenner and a nationally recognized faculty from UC San Diego, Weill Cornell, City of Hope® Cancer Center, and Mayo Clinic employ real-world cases, expert commentary, and imaging–histopathology correlations to help you sharpen interpretations, strengthen recommendations, and avoid the medico-legal missteps that cause most malpractice claims. Through 31 evidence-based continuing medical education lectures, you’ll explore:
- AI & Liability: Where AI truly helps, where it introduces risk, and what this means for your medico-legal exposure
- MRI Everywhere: From staging and recurrence detection to diffusion applications and incidental findings
- Biopsy vs. Surveillance: When “watchful waiting” is safer than intervention
- Special Circumstances: Pregnancy-associated breast cancer and imaging for transgender patients
Date of Original Release: September 15, 2025
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, you will be able to:
- Differentiate the imaging findings of benign and malignant breast masses
- Recognize the features of benign or malignant calcifications on mammogram
- Formulate approaches to one- and two-view asymmetries seen on screening mammogram
- Recognize the issues regarding and methods to detect sentinel lymph nodes of the breast
- Evaluate the issues regarding risk, breast density and phenotypes, mathematical models
- Analyze the different approaches to supplementary screening imaging modalities beyond mammography
- Recognize the indications and limitations of stereotactic breast biopsy
- Analyze different approaches and limitations of ultrasound guided breast techniques
- Compare different methods of preoperative image-guided localization of nonpalpable lesions for surgical excision
- Review technique issues for biopsy using nuclear imaging, MRI imaging, contrast-enhanced (CEM) imaging
- Decide on appropriate management recommendations following percutaneous breast biopsies of “high risk” lesions
- Distinguish the criteria and conditions for recommending surveillance imaging as opposed to biopsy for probably benign breast lesions identified on imaging
- Recognize the signs of silicone implant rupture
- Analyze the indications and outcome expectations of applied criteria for interpreting MRI studies
- Recognize current molecular profiles assigned to breast cancer diagnosis
- Discuss the histologic basis for macroscopic findings on mammography
- Explain the potentials and limitations of incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into breast imaging practice
Intended Audience
This course is intended for radiologists in academics or private practice, and involved in breast imaging and interventional procedures. Any physician (e.g. surgeons) working in the field of evaluation and treatment of breast disease who desires a more comprehensive understanding of the imaging aspects of evaluation.
