大型3期临床试验已经证明，对于局部晚期或转移性前列腺癌患者来说，在长期雄激素剥夺疗法（ADT）的基础上加用放射治疗能够带来显著的生存获益。因此，放疗是这类患者的有效选择之一。然而，部分患者可能会出现尿路梗阻症状，比如排尿困难、残余尿量增多等；在这种情 ...

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 ...

Whole body MR is superior to bone scans in determining how far cancer has spread into the bone marrow and bones, a new study shows. The study compared whole body MR imaging and bone scans in the ...

Researchers can now assess a person’s risk of developing late-life dementia using data from a common type of bone density scan. The long-term study revealed calcification within the abdominal aorta ...

Health-related quality of life after IMRT or IMRT+ HDR brachytherapy for intermediate or high-risk prostate cancer: Five-year results of a prospective trial. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest, abdomen, and spine, taken originally to detect problems such as kidney stones or ...

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 ...