''Imaging amino acid transporters with positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has been shown to significantly alter intended management plans for patients with brain tumors, according to research in the March issue of The Journal of ...'

''When diagnosing and planning treatment for head or neck tumors, clinicians require a CT system that is able to identify diseases and malignancies with high accuracy. Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.'s AquilionTM ONE CT system has the unique ability ...'

''When planning radiation therapy treatments for cancer, it is critical to accurately target the tumor and spare healthy tissue. In order to achieve this, a CT simulation of the patient in the ideal treatment position, with excellent image quality and ...'

''Probactive Biotech, Inc., a Garden Grove, California-based corporation, has entered into an agreement with Dalat Nuclear Research Institute to co-develop a number of cancer drugs, utilizing combinations of antitumor antibodies and antitumor radioactive ...'

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''CNRS and ARCHADE have joined forces in order to develop hadrontherapy. This new radiotherapy technique is already used in certain cases to treat patients whose tumors are resistant to conventional X-ray radiotherapy. The results obtained are extremely ...'

''Scientists from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have discovered a possible way for malignant breast tumors to be identified, without the need for a biopsy. The findings were published online ahead of print in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. ...'

''Uterine fibroid embolization a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the tumors is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for women in a Clinical Therapeutics article in the ...'

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''So-called virtual colonoscopies -- done using souped-up x-rays -- detect tumors and precancerous lesions almost as well as standard colonoscopies using a camera threaded through the colon, Italian researchers reported on Tuesday. The virtual ...'