New PET probe could improve detection of primary and metastatic melanoma
A new nuclear medicine method for detecting malignant melanoma, one of the most aggressive skin…
Browsing: Radiation Oncology & Nuclear Medicine
Physics can show us the inside of tumours
A team of physicists at the Institut Lumière Matière, in collaboration with the Cancer Research…
SABCS 2018: Axillary radiotherapy and lymph node surgery yielded comparable 10-year outcomes for patients with breast cancer
Patients with early-stage breast cancer who had cancer detected in a sentinel lymph node biopsy…
New study supports mammography screening at 30 for some women
A new, large-scale study of more than 5 million mammograms found that annual mammography screening…
Cryoablation shows promise in treating low-risk breast cancers
Cryoablation–the destruction of cancer cells through freezing–shows early indications of effectiveness in treating women with…
Women benefit from mammography screening beyond age 75
Women age 75 years and older should continue to get screening mammograms because of the…
Drug designed to boost radiotherapy for hard to treat cancers taken safely by patients
A new drug designed to make radiotherapy more effective in treating cancer has been given…
Use genetic data to predict the best time of day to give radiotherapy to breast cancer patients, say researchers
A new clinical study led by the University of Leicester and conducted in the HOPE…
Prostate cancer radiotherapy more precisely targeted with nuclear medicine imaging
Current standard imaging techniques for initial staging of prostate cancer often underestimate the extent of…
Proton therapy for paediatric brain tumours has favourable cognitive outcomes
Proton therapy treatment for paediatric brain tumour patients is associated with better neurocognitive outcomes compared…