Researchers in the UC Davis Health Department of Radiology have developed a new way to use EXPLORER, the total-body positron ...

About the expert Laura Dean, MD, is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist at Cleveland Clinic, where she has been ...

A risk factor is anything that increases your chances of getting a disease, such as breast cancer. But having a risk factor, or even many, does not mean that you are sure to get the disease. Certain ...

The prototype of a new machine that can detect tumors in women with dense breast tissue has been developed by researchers from UCL, Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle University, in partnership with ...

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common form of pancreatic cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death, has a 5-year survival rate of less than 10%.1 The impact of pancreatic ...

New study shows radiomic features from mammograms enhance breast cancer prediction, particularly for false-negatives and ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, except for skin cancers. It accounts for about 30% (or 1 in 3) of all new female cancers each year. The American Cancer Society's ...

In one of the larger studies of its kind, researchers have identified six breast texture patterns that may be associated with ...

Many imaging centers don’t calculate breast cancer risk scores for every patient, leading to under-identification of women who would benefit from supplemental screening with breast MRI.

Called molecular breast imaging (MBI), the system uses a radioactive tracer to as part of the scan to "light up" cancerous tissue. This will be especially beneficial as it can be hard to distinguish ...

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) have reintroduced the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis (ABCD) Act, the Alabama senator’s office ...

A healthcare provider can also touch the breasts and feel for changes in the tissue. Sometimes, breast imaging tests are needed. If a provider notices something that is not normal when they look at ...