Hybrid scanner combines five molecular imaging technologies
6/09/2015
Preclinical imaging system will be used to pioneer new drugs and imaging researchScientists are taking medical imaging research and drug discovery to a new level by developing a molecular imaging...
Novel mutational process in gastrointestinal tract cancers targeting gene regulatory elements
6/09/2015
Researchers at University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institutet discovered previously uncharacterized mutational patterns in the human regulatory genome, especially in gastrointestinal tract...
Molecular MRI aims at component of multiple cancers
6/09/2015
Novel MRI agents successfully target tumor-specific physiologyA relatively new biomarker called prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is the bullseye for three new magnetic resonance imaging...
PET/CT captures hidden source of neuroendocrine cancer
6/09/2015
Amino-acid based molecular imaging detects previously unknown site of primary tumorsThe origin of cancer is often obscured by metastases--tumors that have already spread to other tissues.
Follow-up PET/CT more than 95 percent sensitive for non-Hodgkin lymphoma
6/09/2015
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a potentially devastating cancer of the blood and immune system, can range from relatively easy to treat to very aggressive.
Theranostic PET takes on both ovarian and prostate cancer
6/09/2015
Molecular imaging agent effectively targets multiple tumor typesA first-in-human study revealed at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) shows...
Dynamic whole-body PET detects more cancer
6/09/2015
Parametric tumor mapping combines novel bed positioning and advanced data analysisImaging lung cancer requires both precision and innovation.
Pregnancy test: how early can you take a pregnancy test?
6/09/2015
All pregnancy tests measure the amount of human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) - the pregnancy hormone. MNT explains how pregnancy tests work, when to take one, and their accuracy.
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and Mount Sinai in New York have just published new research which for the first time provides strong evidence on the economic benefits of early palliative...
Men are 50 per cent more likely to get oesophageal cancer than 30 years ago
6/08/2015
Oesophageal cancer rates in men have increased by 50 per cent since the early 1980s, with new cases reaching almost 6,000, according to new statistics from Cancer Research UK.