Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and like every cancer, there is a chance of breast cancer recurrence even after completion of the prescribed treatment. Hence, every woman has to ...

Tiny brain tumors often hide in plain sight—sometimes no bigger than a grain of rice. These metastases, or secondary cancers that spread from other parts of the body, are especially dangerous.

In a significant leap forward for successful cancer surgery, researchers at the University of Missouri and collaborators have developed a new imaging probe to help surgeons more accurately identify ...

Lung cancer is one of the kinds of cancer that is most likely to spread to the brain. Approximately 20 percent of lung cancer patients develop brain metastases.

Glioma is a broad category of brain and spinal cord tumors that come from glial cells – brain cells that support nerve cells. The symptoms, prognosis, and treatment of a glioma depend on the ...

He told me to get an MRI right away. I called to get an MRI, and the imaging place told me they could schedule me about 10 days out, but I knew I couldn't wait that long.

Michael Bolton 's behavior during a family outing played a role in his brain cancer diagnosis. As the "When a Man Loves a Woman" singer's daughter Taryn Bolotin recently recalled, the 72-year-old ...

CT scan CT (or CAT) scan stands for computed (axial) tomography. It is a test that uses x-rays and a computer to create detailed pictures of the inside of your body. You might have a CT scan of the ...

Usually, patients' tumors are mapped out by MRI before the patients undergo radiation. In the new trial, the researchers added another type of imaging, called 18F-DOPA PET.

A paper published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, titled "Comparative Analysis of Intracranial Response Assessment Criteria in Patients With Melanoma Brain Metastases Treated With Combination ...