(WNDU) - A PET scan is an imaging test that doctors traditionally use to evaluate patients for cancer, but it requires a dose of radiation, and a patient needs to lie still for 30 minutes or more. If ...

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.

The first Digital PET-CT Scanner at Mater Dei Hospital has been inaugurated and will be assisting cancer patients in their diagnosis and ongoing assessment. Present for the occasion were the Minister ...

For years, prostate cancer specialists hit a wall when prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels crept up after definitive treatment. The cancer was likely back — but where? And to what extent? Bone plus ...

New PSMA PET/CT can detect signs of prostate cancer within elderly patients without the need of a biopsy. PSMA PET/CT scans can detect signs of prostate cancer in elderly patients without the need of ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can detect cancer earlier than other imaging tests. But some types of cancer are harder to detect on a PET scan. In particular, they may miss cancers that ...

GE HealthCare and the Department of Radiology at Stanford Medicine aim to explore total body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) technology for new clinical pathways to help ...

Nigerians suffering from cancer and medical experts have lamented the lack of an important machine for cancer care called Positron Emission Tomography computer tomography (PET-CT) scan machine across ...

The Foresight CLARITY test offers greater prognostic accuracy than PET/CT scans in large B-cell lymphoma by detecting ctDNA-MRD negativity, indicating better patient outcomes. ctDNA-MRD testing showed ...