It can show the size and location of thyroid cancer and whether it has spread to other parts of your body. Your doctor might recommend a positron emission tomography, or PET scan. This test uses ...

rather than PET–CT scanning. In patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer and normal neck ultrasonography, normal 131 I scanning, and an elevated thyroglobulin level, a chest CT scan ...

PET (positron emission tomography ... The iodine collects in your thyroid gland and helps doctors find thyroid cancer. Nuclear medicine scans aren’t painful. The scans usually involve lying ...

The US company’s acquisition, the terms of which have not been publicly disclosed, will provide it with ultrasound provisions ...

Within cancer care, the radiotracer 18 F-FDG (fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose) is used in PET/CT scans to identify increased glucose ... while 124 I was found in the tumour, thyroid, kidneys, stomach ...

A newly developed PET imaging agent has been found to be effective in identifying medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in preclinical and clinical studies, according to research published in the January ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can detect cancer earlier than other imaging tests. But some types of cancer are harder to detect on a PET scan. In particular, they may miss cancers that ...

If a doctor suspects cancer based on the ultrasound, they will order follow-up tests, such as a biopsy. Thyroid ultrasound scans are safe and effective ways to produce images of the thyroid gland.

Anthony Glover receives funding from Cancer Institute ... unrelated health issue. Thyroid nodules are readily seen on common imaging tests such as an ultrasound or CT scans. Because there is ...

That's especially true of thyroid cancer, where doctors say less can be more. It's an everyday occurrence - a scan for one medical condition turns up small lumps, or nodules, elsewhere.