For patients with advanced breast cancer, PET and MRI can improve quality of life and survival by providing physicians with information on chemotherapy effectiveness prior to surgery.
Centers in the United States can achieve a 20% reduction in lung cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) versus chest X-ray (CXR) screening that was previously reported by the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST).
Digital direct radiography is significantly more effective than computed radiography at detecting breast cancer, according to a new study.
The radiation dose to areas of the body near the breast during mammography is negligible, or very low, and does not result in an increased risk of cancer, according to a new study.
Adding three-dimensional imaging to standard digital mammography significantly increases the diagnostic accuracy of radiologists while reducing the rate of false positive recalls.
Treatment combining electroporation and the drug DNA IL-12 has yielded preliminary positive results in response to treatment and safety among patients with metastatic melanoma.
A new tumor-tracking technique delivers higher levels of radiation to moving tumors while sparing healthy tissue in lung cancer patients. This technique is moving closer to the clinic.
The risk of developing leukemia is significantly increased for the 110,654 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. The results of this 20-year study may help scientists to better define the cancer risk associated with low doses of radiation from medical diagnostic radiation procedures.
This week, the Advisor Forum answers a question about the use of amifostine (Ethyol, generic) as a radioprotectant.
A switch from screen-film mammography to digital mammography improved the detection of life-threatening cancer without significantly increasing the detection of clinically insignificant disease in a large, population-based breast cancer screening program.
