Search Tag: metastases

2015 24 Jun

A Canadian study shows that most women with early-stage breast cancer will undergo imaging to determine if the cancer has metastasised, despite international guidelines that recommend against testing. Advanced imaging — such as computed tomography, MRI and positron emission tomography — is increasingly used to detect possible metastases and now comprises...Read more

2015 11 Jun

Determining the origin of cancer becomes difficult when tumour cells have already spread to other tissues (metastases). An investigational molecular imaging technique — combining positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) — could be the key to finding the elusive primary tumour, according to a new study presented at the 2015 Annual...Read more

2015 07 Feb

A pioneering clinical trial is testing whether ultrasound therapy can relieve pain in patients whose cancers have spread to the bone. The first five patients have already been treated in the trial, with encouraging reductions in the pain they were experiencing from bone tumours, according to researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and...Read more

2015 17 Jan

MIT researchers have developed a new technique that allows biological specimens to be physically magnified and then imaged at high resolution without needing to use very powerful — and often expensive — microscopes. This new method enlarges tissue samples by embedding them in an expandable polymer gel made of polyacrylate. The expansion microscopy...Read more

2014 04 Nov

Radiotherapy of the long bones (RTLB) is meant to provide control of symptoms, destroy cancer cells in the treated area and prevent malignant disease-related fractures. Bone radiotherapy is also a useful means of halting tumour proliferation and then triggering osteoblastic activity with osteoproliferation. Bone recalcification after RTLB has been observed...Read more