The social impact of breast cancer is enormous, not just because it is the most common malignancy in women and the second leading cause of cancer-related death, but also because it is sporadic in occurrence and often affects women during their most productive years. Early diagnosis and treatment lead to the most successful management of […]
Category: Oncology
Recent Advances in Hepatic Imaging
Evaluation of hepatic disease is one of the most common requests for patients referred for abdominal imaging. Infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic diseases of the liver may affect patients referred from many clinical specialties. Recent advances in MR software and hardware have moved MRI to the forefront of abdominal and liver imaging, with much faster exams, […]
Brain Tumors: Diagnosis and Management of Benign and Malignant Neoplastic Diseases
After stroke, brain tumors are the most common cause of death from neurological diseases in the U.S., with 2% of all cancer deaths among adults attributable to primary malignant brain tumors. The incidence rate peaks in the seventh and eighth decades of adult life, and jumps by 500% in patients over age 85. Gliomas and […]