When a new, more sensitive imaging tool hit the scene, it became the go-to tool for detecting recurrent prostate cancer. But now experts are rethinking how, or whether, to act on positive findings.

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of imaging scan that doctors might use when diagnosing and treating non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). It can be useful for identifying and staging the cancer.

PET scans improve diagnosis and assessment of treatment. * THE QUESTION Does a PET scan change breast cancer diagnoses and treatment decisions? * PAST STUDIES have shown that positron emission ...

As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE talked to Dr. Brian Keith McNeil, on behalf of ZERO-End Prostate Cancer, about ...

The use of PET-CT scans may help identify subclinical GCA and malignancies among patients with PMR, even in the absence of overt clinical symptoms.

PET scans were helpful in determining which patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer may be able to skip chemotherapy. Treating patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer based on positron ...

The tests look for bits of altered DNA that cancer cells shed into the bloodstream. The screening technology holds hope of ...

Nearly a year after Montell Jordan was diagnosed with Stage 1 prostate cancer and underwent a prostatectomy as treatment, the ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- New technology that's allowing doctors to pinpoint prostate cancer long before it becomes a threat is now widely available. A former firefighter mentioned how this new imaging ...

“Most folks who are diagnosed with them end up dying from them, usually within a year or two. We don't have great treatments.

PET scans can light up tumors in the body and help doctors determine if they are cancerous or benign (noncancerous). The results of a PET scan help guide medical decisions. A PET scan is a type of ...