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May 1, 2015May 1, 2015

National Cancer Institute grants $2.88 Million for Research and Development of Breast CT Scanning

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The National Cancer Institute granted John M. Boone, a UC Davis professor of radiology and medical physicist, with an award of $2.88 million to advance and study computed tomography (CT) ... Read more

April 24, 2015

PET Scan of Early-Stage Hodgkin’s Lymphoma-free patients May Prevent the Need for Radiotherapy

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Recently, researchers used a positron-emission tomography (PET) scan as a screening strategy to identify patients with early Hodgkin’s Lymphoma that have shown positive outcomes after chemotherapy without performing radiotherapy. The study, ... Read more

April 13, 2015April 13, 2015

Steven Keating at MIT Studies His Own Brain Tumor Using MRI, 3D Printing

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Steven Keating, a graduate student from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is no ordinary student. In 2007, Keating became a subject in a research study and had his brain scanned via ... Read more

March 25, 2015March 25, 2015

Dartmouth Researchers Reduce Costs of Photodynamic Therapy For Pancreatic Cancer

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Researchers from Dartmouth were able to significantly reduce the costs associated with protodynamic therapy (PDT), a technique that can benefit late stage pancreatic cancer patients but whose resources for dosimetry ... Read more

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015

Watching Tumors Die, Close Up, In Real Time

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Diagnosing and treating cancer is less straightforward than it once seemed to be. For example, time was that cancer of the breast was breast cancer, for which doctors had only ... Read more

January 21, 2015

Nanoparticles Used for Hexamodal Imaging at University of Buffalo

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Researchers at the University at Buffalo (UB) have designed a single nanoparticle capable of use in six different modes of medical imaging. Computed tomography (CT) scanning is included in the ... Read more

September 22, 2014

Benefits of Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer Patients Questioned in New Study

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A new study on breast cancer challenges the current medical treatment guideline for women with hormone-receptor positive (HR+) invasive breast cancer by showing that combination treatment with endocrine and radiation ... Read more

September 5, 2014September 5, 2014

COMARE’S Report Points To An Increase in CT Scans

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The number of computer tomography scans — more commonly known as “CT scans” — has grown in the last year (from 2013 a 2014) up to five million exams, highlighted ... Read more