1. FDG-PET for Vulvar Carcinoma Diagnosis
(Communities/PET)

... (FDG) as a tracer (FDG-PET) is widely used in clinical oncology, including cervical, endometrial, and ovarian cancer. But its use in vulvar carcinoma was unknown. Akila Viswanathan, MD, Dana Farber Cancer ...

2. Ultrasound plus Proteomic Detects Ovarian Cancer
(Communities/Ultrasound)

Ultrasound imaging combined with proteomic analyses of blood samples may help physicians identify early-stage ovarian cancer and save the lives of many women, this study published in the February issue ...

3. New Mammogram Guidelines for Hopkins Survivors
(Modalities/Mammography)

... patients under 50. Primary-care providers must inquire about family history of cancers on both sides of the family because breast and ovarian cancer genes may be inherited through the father, Murphy says. ...

4. PET-CT Studies Detects Underlying Cancers
(Communities/PET)

... one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Paraneoplastic neurologic disorders occur in some people with cancer—including lung, breast or ovarian cancer—and may develop when cancer-fighting antibodies mistakenly ...

5. Myriad with MRS Identifies Breast Cancer
(Company News/Mammography Reporting System, Inc.)

... Genetic Laboratories, Inc. "This approach broadens and compliments Myriad's efforts to improve the healthcare of women with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer by identifying a greater number ...

6. MRI Detects New Cancer-killing Particles
(Communities/MRI)

... also attached an antibody that lets the particles bind to the surface of breast and ovarian cancer cells. In the lab, the team tracked the fluorescent particles and confirmed that they targeted cancer ...

7. MRS Demonstrates Its High Risk Alerts RSNA
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2009)

... and ovarian cancer. MRS's three high risk indicators are changing the landscape in mammography screening. It gives radiologists a better indication when an MRI may be necessary, or other pre-emptive breast ...

8. MRS Leads Mammography Industry in Risk Alerts
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2009)

... mutation. Those genes are known as tumor suppressors and have been linked to both hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Source: MRS You can discuss more about RSNA Conference and related topics in our ...

9. New MR Technique May Help Save Women from Unnecessary Breast Biopsies; Study Research Presents at ARRS 2009
(Radiology Conferences/ARRS 2009)

... history of breast or ovarian cancer and patients with certain genetic mutations). It is also used for some patients who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer or for patients with complex mammograms," ...

10. UAB Helps in Research to Find Better Test to Detect Prostate Cancer
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, one of 10 medical centers participating in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial. "What this study says is we need a better screening ...

11. Ovarian Cancer Screening Not Catching Early Disease
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

Screening regimens that combine ultrasound and a blood test for ovarian cancer fail to detect the disease early enough to make important progress, the authors of a new study reported The only available ...

12. Medicare Expands Coverage of Pet Scans as Cancer Diagnostic Tool
(Communities/PET)

... support initial diagnosis and treatment for most types of solid tumor cancers.  It also expands coverage of PET scans for subsequent follow up testing in beneficiaries who have cervical or ovarian cancer, ...

13. Medicare to Cover More PET Scans for Cancer Diagnosis
(Communities/PET)

... will now reimburse for subsequent scans in patients with those cancers. It will also add two new malignancies -- ovarian cancer and myeloma -- to its list, which makes for a total of eleven cancers now ...

14. SNM Calls CMS PET Scan Decision a Major Benefit for Cancer Patients
(Organizations/SNM)

... Medicare is now expanding coverage to include ovarian cancer and myeloma, making a total of eleven indications now covered for both the initial diagnosis and subsequent treatment strategy for patients. ...

15. Doctors at Henry Ford Health System Treat Ovarian, Prostate, Lung, and Other Forms of Cancer Using Varian's Novalis Tx Platform
(Company News/Varian Medical Systems)

... She had completed a course of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for recurrent ovarian cancer just two days earlier, and her doctor, Kenneth Levin, MD, had no qualms about authorizing the trip. "It ...

16. Screening with Ultrasound and Blood Test Misses Early Ovarian Cancer
(Communities/Ultrasound)

Annual screening with ultrasound and a blood test called CA 125 usually misses early cases of ovarian cancer, says the report in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. Ovarian cancer screening often ...

17. No Early Mortality Benefit from Annual Prostate Cancer Screening: Trials Show
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... Prevention, begun in 1992 to determine whether certain cancer screening tests can help reduce deaths from prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer. The underlying rationale for the trial is that screening ...

18. Ovations for the Cure Applauds Medical Research Test Findings on ovarian cancer
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... their cancers detected at early stages. Ovations for the Cure, a national ovarian cancer foundation, applauded the preliminary findings of a large, continuing medical study which indicate that post menopausal ...

19. Blood, Ultrasound Tests Catch Ovarian Cancer: Study
(Communities/Ultrasound)

Blood tests and ultrasound scans can catch deadly ovarian cancer at the most early and treatable stages Blood tests and ultrasound scans can catch deadly ovarian cancer at the most early and treatable ...

20. Combo of Tests Might Spot Ovarian Cancer Early
(Communities/Ultrasound)

A blood test and an ultrasound scan may be effective in detecting ovarian cancer in its early and more curable stages Used together, a blood test and an ultrasound scan may be effective in detecting ovarian ...