Full-body scans are making headlines for potentially catching diseases early, but some doctors urge caution. Here's what you ...

A woman made a shocking discovery after getting a largely unprompted full-body MRI scan through the company Prenuvo. As ...

Though the standard notion of whole body radiation therapy is immunosuppressive, there is growing evidence toward the contrary for focal radiation therapy. Furthermore, if immunotherapeutic ...

The radiation dose from such a scan can be low (e.g. an effective dose of about 7 mSv for a whole body study). However, the effective dose from a high resolution diagnostic scan can be quite high (up ...

Because these drugs pass through your whole system ... through one or more of these methods: External radiation: A machine outside the body shoots invisible high-energy beams into the tumor.

It's an area of medicine that uses "radiation therapy" -- a treatment that focuses high-energy waves on your body to kill cancer cells. Your doctor will decide if it's right for you based on the ...

Published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology ... throughout the body. All results were within acceptable ...

Computed tomography (CT) scanning provides images of sections of the body (slices) using special X ray equipment and sophisticated computers. CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood ...