Frances Rylands-Monk

French radiologists and other medical imagers are preparing themselves for the results of a meeting on 20 May between five practitioner unions and Thomas Fatome, the director of France’s national health insurance fund (Caisse nationale d’assurance maladie, CNAM), following more than 12 months of wrangling over cuts to medical imaging, sanctioned under the most recent social security financing bill.

“Breast pain alone isn’t a sign of breast cancer.” That’s a notice that Dr. Matthew Wallis, senior member of the Breast Cancer Unit in Cambridge, U.K., would like to see in neon characters on breast imaging centers and websites across the country.

Endometriosis can present in many different organs and areas of the reproductive system, as well as nonreproductive, so radiological diagnosis must be systematic to not miss any locations within the pelvis. This was the view of Prof.