Study stirs debate over full-body scans&#39; cancer risk
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A new study raises questions about the safety of healthy people undergoing full-body CT screenings to detect disease early on. USA TODAY&#39;s Liz Szabo talked to leading experts about the procedure and the study&#39;s findings.
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The Harvard researchers, who summarized their findings in this week&#39;s edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, analyzed data from more than 100,000 participants in two large cohort studies.
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Researchers find a strong association between body mass index and a variety of cancers.
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Women with a high genetic risk of breast cancer run a better chance of having it detected with magnetic resonance imaging than with mammography or other methods.
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For a prime example of medical screening that has proliferated beyond reason, consider the alarming case of full-body computed tomography scans to detect cancer, cardiovascular disease and other conditions.
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TORONTO -- MRI scans find breast cancer twice as well as traditional screening procedures, a Canadian-led study says, but resear-chers say only the most at-risk women should consider the procedure because of its tremendous false positive rate.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be the best screening tool for breast cancer in women who carry the genetic mutation that makes them susceptible to the disease, according to new research.
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A study of 400,00 Danes debunks cell phone-cancer link. Does evidence for other ailments remain? In Gear Factor.
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TUESDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- Current methods of gauging a woman&#39;s  breast cancer risk that rely on her family history may often underestimate the danger, a new study suggests.
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People who have full-body CT screenings to detect potential health problems are exposed to about as much radiation as some survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, a study in today&#39;s journal Radiology reports.
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TORONTO (CP) - MRI scans detect breast cancer at twice the rate of traditional screening procedures, says a Canadian-led study that suggests only the most at-risk women consider the costly procedure because of its tremendous false positive rate.
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A debate over a hypothesis that cancers are fed by cancerous stem cells could affect the path of research.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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NEW YORK  - The increased risk of cancer from the radiation used in a CT scan is negligible compared with the benefits for children who need a scan, according to investigators at Cincinnati's Hospital for Children in Ohio.
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Scanning a patient&#39;s colon for cancerous polyps also offers an opportunity to assess the risk of a heart attack by checking for calcium deposits in the aorta, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more accurate than mammography, ultrasound or clinical examination in detecting breast cancer in women with a hereditary risk for the disease, a study has found.
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According to the study, published in the journal Radiology, the increasing popularity of full-body CT screening has raised concerns regarding the radiation-related cancer mortality risk associated with full-body CT radiation exposure.