Diana L. Miglioretti, PhD

CT scans save lives, but unsafe radiation doses can cause cancer. CMS wants to make radiation safety reporting voluntary. Patients deserve protection, not risk.
👉 Tell CMS to keep protections mandatory by Sept 15:
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Racial and ethnic minorities are less likely to receive timely breast cancer diagnostic services after an abnormal screening mammogram rsna.org/news/2025/febr…

Proud to share coverage of my PhD student's research presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: Refining Precision Prevention for Benign Breast Disease ajmc.com/view/refining-… via @AJMC @BCSC_research @UCDavis_PHS

New study published by one of my PhD students found that children with Down syndrome receive 10 times as many medical imaging examinations as other children, with implications for their lifetime cancer risks.
health.ucdavis.edu/cancer/news/he…

UCD & UCSF led BCSC study shows BMI accounts for a large amount of variation in breast density across racial and ethnic groups, with important implications for the new federal breast density notification law. Read more here: bcsc-research.org/bcsc-blog/brea… @UCD_Cancer @UCDavis_PHS