Modern healthcare is about to enter a new era in which doctors can not only view 3D models using images from MRI, ultrasound and other modalities, but they can actually reach out and “touch” those images, tour patients’ anatomical structures and perform mock operations using virtual reality technology

Proton radiotherapy has been shown to achieve results similar to conventional photon radiotherapy while also decreasing toxicity to acceptable levels in pediatric brain tumor patients, according to results of a study published online in Lancet Oncology.

The CDC is reporting a consistent decrease in combined cancer death rates as part of its annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.

Scientists are beginning to unlock some of the secrets of a rare type of language dementia known as primary progressive aphasia using amyloid PET imaging.

You don’t need to be Superman to have X-ray vision these days, according to the makers of Walabot, a handheld 3D-imaging device that plugs into Android smartphones.

Want to know which specific hereditary ailments you, and you alone, are susceptible to? All of them? 

Adjunct ultrasound has gone up against adjunct tomosynthesis and come out on top, the former beating the latter at incremental breast-cancer detection in women with dense breasts while avoiding recalls for false positives at a similar clip, according to a study published online March 9 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. 

A new advancement in real-time visualization of body tissues using molecular imaging probes could significantly increase early detection and treatment capabilities of cancer and other diseases, according to results of a study published online in Nature Communications.