Dilon Diagnostics, the industry leader in molecular breast imaging, announced that the Society of Nuclear Medicine Procedure Guidelines Committee has released The SNM Procedure Guideline for Breast Scintigraphy with Breast- Specific Gamma Cameras. Source: General Cancer News Articles Provided by Cancer Compass
Molecular imaging has a powerful new weapon in the fight against prostate cancer. Research introduced at SNM’s 57th Annual Meeting demonstrates how a novel peptide-targeted imaging agent could help clinicians detect a biological process that signals cancer in prostate cells. Information gathered about this process may even differentiate [...]
According to research revealed at SNM’s 57th Annual Meeting, a multi-tracer molecular imaging technique using positron emission tomography (PET) provides detailed information about the physiological processes of cancerous tumors-and could one day help radiation oncologists treat head and neck cancers with precision external- beam radiation therapy and improve the [...]
Imaging Costs Rising Faster Than Total Cancer Care For Medicare The cost of imaging studies in cancer patients covered by Medicare is growing at twice the rate of the overall costs of cancer care in that group, according to scientists in the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). A dramatic increase in PET scans is leading the [...]
Use and Costs of Diagnostic Imaging Increasing for Patients With Cancer From 1999 through 2006 the use of diagnostic imaging for Medicare patients with cancer increased, with use of positron emission tomography (PET) increasing the most significantly, according to a study in the April 28 issue of JAMA. Imaging costs for these patients also increased. Read more [...]
NCI is launching a new program to qualify existing NCI designated Cancer Centers with an added attribute — as Centers of Quantitative Imaging Excellence. This program will significantly decrease potential variability in image procedures done while a patient is undergoing treatment as part of a NCI-sponsored clinical trial. Source: NCI News Releases
After an imaging test revealed a small nodule in Dr. Len Lichtenfeld’s lung, his doctor ordered a series of CT scans. But Lichtenfeld turned them down. As deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, Lichtenfeld knew the tiny nodule probably wasn’t dangerous and that new research has [...]