Analysis of renal cancer biopsies and metastases showed intratumour heterogeneity, which could interfere with the delivery of personalized medicine, when strategies utilize a single tumor biopsy sample, according to a study published March 8 in New England Journal of Medicine.

Breast pain is a common complaint among patients and accounts for anywhere from 45 to 70 percent of breast-related complaints in the primary care setting. While imaging may seem to provide reassurance to patients concerned about the possibility of cancer, initial imaging increases the odds of subsequent clinical services utilization that provides no benefit, according to a study published online Jan. 31 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Biospace Lab in Paris and the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging at University College London will collaborate on the development of real-time in vivo optical imaging applications and further development of the Biospace Lab PhotonImager Optima preclinical imaging platform.

The FDA has approved the EverFlex self-expanding peripheral stent system for use in the superficial femoral artery (SFA) and/or the proximal popliteal artery (PPA).

"The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about, Wayne W. Dyer, PhD, author and speaker once said. In medicine especially, this quote may hit the nail on the head, particularly for the patient.

The Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) have launched a collaborative trial to evaluate adaptive radiotherapy (RT) with FDG-PET/CT for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Previous studies have outlined gender and racial disparities within healthcare, including the low use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) as a primary prevention method in women and blacks. But a study published March 7 in Circulation showed that this gap may be narrowing after researchers found a significant increase in ICD therapy in all sex and racial groups. But while racial disparities were no longer present within ICD, sex differences still persisted.

Researchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a method to label transplanted cells so they can be tracked by MRI, potentially offering a way to measure how many transplanted immune or stem cells reach their target during cell therapy.