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 ...

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 ...

One in 10 hematologic cancers among children and adolescents may be attributable to radiation exposure from medical imaging, ...

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 ...

It is difficult to escape a genitourinary malignancies session at any major oncology meeting these days without hearing a proclamation that the technetium-99 (Tc99) bone scan is dead. The triumphant ...

CT scans pose significant radiation exposure, since they involve a series of many X-rays that are combined to create a ...

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