New research has been published ahead-of-print by The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM). JNM is published by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, an international scientific and ...

In patients with biochemical failure after prostatectomy, about two thirds showed detectable local disease at restaging. Multiparametric MRI alone detected local lesions in over one third of patients ...

About 170,000 women in the United States are living with metastatic breast cancer — or cancer that has spread to other organs — and eventually leads to death. Now, a team led in part by oncologists ...

Smoking weed poses cancer risks beyond the lungs. Here’s what to know. Heavy marijuana use may come with a two- to eight-fold higher risk of head and neck cancer. Inhaling smoke of any kind exposes ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An Arizona woman is bravely sharing her story after what started as a small canker sore turned into a life-altering diagnosis. Michelle Smith never thought she would find herself ...

Scientists at Mass General Brigham have created HPV-DeepSeek, a blood test that can detect HPV-linked head and neck cancers nearly a decade before diagnosis. By finding viral DNA in the bloodstream, ...

A risk model suggested that CT exams in 2023 were projected to lead to over 100,000 future cancers over the lifetime of exposed patients. Previous projections published in 2009 had estimated that ...

Cancer biologists have an arsenal of tools and models that can be used to study different aspects of the disease. These models have distinct strengths and weaknesses. For example, immortal cell lines ...

This guide for newly diagnosed patients provides key information to help you understand your options and have informed conversations with your oncologist. A diagnosis of head and neck cancer can bring ...

A new blood test can identify cancers of the head and neck caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) up to 10 years before symptoms appear. This is the discovery of Mass General Brigham researchers who ...