PET/CT is a useful tool ... at the primary site of the cancer and at the areas where it has spread. After an hour, the patient is taken to the scan room for the procedure. During the procedure ...

It may not be something you think of when you visit the hospital, but a recent report from CBS reveals that getting a ...

Computer tomography scans, or CT scans, are an invaluable tool for diagnosing cancer and other conditions. But in a cruel twist, the medical imaging technique may be more harmful than once thought ...

PET/MRI detects GI cancers more sensitively than PET/CT, with less radiation and excellent soft tissue contrast.

CT scans are a vital part of modern medicine. Found in every hospital and many clinics, they give doctors a fast and detailed look inside the body—helping to diagnose everything from cancer and ...

A new study has set off alarm bells, attributing the overuse of computed tomography – or CT – scans to around 5% of new cancer diagnoses annually. Since 2007, this imaging technology has seen ...

A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine has found that CT scans may be responsible for approximately 5% of annual cancer diagnoses in the United States. This startling statistic has raised ...

The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, warns that CT scans performed in the US in 2023 alone could eventually lead to over 100,000 extra cancer cases.If the current rate of scanning ...

A commonly used computerized scan may slightly increase cancer risk over a person’s lifetime. That’s according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, an online publication of the ...

Bindman, the director of the Radiology Outcomes Research Laboratory and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the ...