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• Enhanced PET Imaging Radiotracers Designed for Better Tracking of Disease

• Re-Treating Lung Cancer with Radiotherapy Is Effective

• Breath Analysis Provides Same Sensitivity, Twice the Specificity of PET Imaging Identifying Early Lung Cancer

• PET Used Instead of Repeated Biopsy for Monitoring of Prostate Cancer

• Functional Brain PET Imaging Effectively Forecasts Which Vegetative Patients Can Recover Consciousness

• Early PET-Negative Stage I/II Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients Show Increased Risk of Early Relapse when Radiotherapy Is Not Used

• Beam Technology Enables Less Harmful, More Accurate, and Cost-Effective Radiotherapy

• PET Imaging Used to Assess Effectiveness of Menkes Disease Treatments

• Sharp Decline Seen in Use of Cardiac Nuclear Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

• Collaboration Expands Capacity for Proton Therapy Clinical Research and Patient Treatments

• Helium Ions May Provide Better-Targeted Treatment in Pediatric Radiotherapy

• Shock-Absorbing “Goo” Discovered in Bone

• Preoperative PET Reduces Redundant Lung Surgeries

• Radiotherapy After Mastectomy Helpful to Women with Breast Cancer That Metastasized to Only a Few Lymph Nodes

• PET Imaging Reveals Cognitive Impairment Predicted from Plaques

• Earlier Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Attained with New PET Tracers

• Favorable Outcomes Seen for Advanced Stage Tonsil Cancer Using Unilateral Radiotherapy

• Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer Patients Offers Long-Term Patient Survival with Optimal Quality of Life

• Dressing Designed to Prevent Skin Reactions During Radiation Therapy

• Dense Breast Tissue Not Problematic for Molecular Breast Imaging

• First Lung Cancer Patients Treated Using MRI-Guided Radiotherapy

• Brachytherapy Provides Lower Rate of Breast Preservation for Older Women

• Cherenkov Effect Breakthrough Allows Clinicians to Visualize Radiotherapy in Body