A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a method to predict early-stage kidney damage caused by certain cancer treatments. The kidneys begin to shrink slightly—months ...

The study will test whether the addition of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) - positron emission tomography (PET) ...

Researchers projected CT use in 2023 would lead to more than 100,000 future cancer diagnoses, and if trends continued, may ...

Low-dose CT scans are the recommended screening method ... colorectal, lung and prostate cancer deaths between 1975 and 2020. For the study, a team of researchers, led by the University of ...

Abdomen and pelvis CT scans contribute most to cancer risk (37% of projected cancers), with lung cancer being the most common ...

metastatic prostate cancer. The other goal of the study is to find the maximum tolerated dose of the therapy. MORE: CT scans cause more cancer cases than previously believed, study shows "If this ...

Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research The scale and impact of modern health care can be mind-boggling. “Approximately 93 million computed tomography (CT) examinations are performed on 62 million ...

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 ...

PSMA-PET[3] imaging represents a significant advancement in prostate cancer management, providing clinicians with more information than conventional imaging methods (bone scan, CT[4] scan) thereby ...

PET/CT is a useful tool to ... 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.