Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can spare many patients with rectal cancer from invasive surgery that can carry lifelong side effects, new research indicates. That information could be extremely ...

GW Hospital is proud to be the first adult-care hospital in the metropolitan Washington–Northern Virginia region to add MRI-guided focused ultrasound to its intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging ...

Mark Strand, 68, knew something was wrong when he went in for testing. “I was having daily fevers and low-level fevers,” Strand said. “And the PET scan revealed, in the end, a mass on top of my head.” ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . MRI appeared more likely to be used for younger patients and those with smaller tumors. Patient age and tumor ...

Contrast-enhanced breast MRI may help rule out malignancy and avoid surgery in patients with high-risk lesions, a systematic review and meta-analysis reveals.

The urologist suggested removing the kidney to prevent cancer from spreading throughout my body. He also suggested doing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . MRI can help determine which individuals with rectal cancer may not need surgery following neoadjuvant therapy.

Certified child life specialists at New York City-based Lerner Children’s Pavilion at Hospital for Special Surgery eliminated the need for sedation during almost 2,000 pediatric MRIs over an ...

(Columbia) Jan. 20, 2003 - A room-sized magnet, the Magnetic Resonance Indicator machine takes pictures of the human body. Steve Nelson had an MRI after a car accident to check for bleeding on the ...

BOSTON — Having a preoperative MRI scan does not help surgeons to reduce the likelihood of positive surgical margins when they are performing lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer, a new study ...