If your doctor thinks cancer may have spread to your bones, a test called a bone scan can help them learn more. What is a ...

“Imaging with computed topography and technetium 99m bone scans can be used for metastasis detection,” Dr McKay said. “Given that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, and the majority of ...

For a sidebar on how this story came together, click here. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has long been the gold standard for osteoporosis screening. But now, thousands of patients may be ...

Figure 1. A 74-y-old man at initial staging with PSMA PET that demonstrates low uptake in primary tumor (A, arrowhead) and left pelvic side wall node (A, arrow). Bone scan was read as positive by 2 of ...

When Wilhelm Röntgen found X-rays in the late 1800s, the world was given a new way of seeing inside the human body and ...

The fibula is the longest, thinnest calf bone in your lower leg. Of your two lower leg bones, your fibula is closest to the outside of your body. When you break this bone, it's called a fibular ...

A recent study links exposure to radiation from medical imaging to a small-but-significant risk of blood cancers among ...