Both Hodgkin's disease (HD) and aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) are curable malignancies. With standard induction therapies (Armitage et al, 1986; DeVita et al, 1997; Gianni et al, 1997) more ...

PET scans may serve as both a diagnostic and prognostic tool in giant cell arteritis (GCA), according to a new study. In over 100 patients with GCA who underwent 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET ...

Reston, VA – When developing a treatment plan for cervical cancer, it is important to be able to determine a patient's prognosis, ideally at the time of diagnosis. Existing methods to arrive at a ...

A characteristic feature of Alzheimer's disease may not be the most accurate measure of its severity and progression in patients, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania and ...

Inflammation and Behavioral Symptoms After Breast Cancer Treatment: Do Fatigue, Depression, and Sleep Disturbance Share a Common Underlying Mechanism? The initial staging of 175 pediatric patients ...

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PET scans were helpful in determining which patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer may be able to skip chemotherapy. Treating patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer based on positron ...

Before you take that walk or ride a bike, think again--especially if you will be undergoing a positron emission tomography (PET) scan any time soon. "Any type of physical activity--from tapping your ...