A new targeted PET/CT tracer can detect treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis patients in as little as four weeks, and ...

(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 ...

Advanced Cardiology and Electrophysiology in Lufkin is now the first clinic in East Texas to offer cardiac PET/CT scanning - ...

June 3, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois) — Preoperative imaging with 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) appears to more accurately identify patients with mediastinal and extrathoracic ...

Step by step, little by little, we are learning how to act on this new staging information,’ one investigator says.

The BSA Health System has installed a new Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) scanner to expand the hospital's diagnostic imaging capabilities.

Association of ABCB1 polymorphism and erlotinib toxicity with efficacy in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Background: Up to one-third of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients are ...

For patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), PET/CT scans conducted in the first cycle of salvage therapy can predict for response, according to a study. Results of a prospective study of ...

Whole-pelvis RT linked to improved PFS for patients with prostate cancer staged TrN0M0, while ADT linked to improved PFS in patients staged N1/M1.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Lexington Medical Center (LMC), announced that it is now offering Positron Emission Tomography — Computed Tomography (PET/CT) services. Positron emission tomography (PET) ...

TULSA, Okla. — Ascension St. John is doing their part to make the fight against cancer as easy as possible. They were the first in the state to launch a mobile PET scan unit. A PET/CT scan can be a ...

Central Montana Medical Center in Lewistown recently partnered with Shared Medical Services in order to provide PET/CT scan technology to the community.