Positron emission tomography (PET) is a type of imaging scan that doctors might use when diagnosing and treating non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). It can be useful for identifying and staging the cancer.

The primary way to diagnose lymphoma involves a lymph node biopsy. However, doctors may utilize several other diagnostic procedures depending on a person’s lymphoma. Doctors can use blood tests, ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My father just started chemotherapy for lymphoma, and he is scheduled for a positron emission tomography, or PET scan, after his first three treatments. How do doctors decide when to ...

For children under age 18 years, a single computed tomography (CT) scan is not associated with an increased risk of brain tumors, leukemia or lymphoma, but exposure to 4 or more scans before adulthood ...

One of the primary tools that oncologists use to stage cancers is the PET (positron emission tomography) scan, an imaging test that uses a small amount of radioactive sugar to detect metabolically ...

Consolidation Therapy With Low-Dose Thalidomide and Prednisolone Prolongs the Survival of Multiple Myeloma Patients Undergoing a Single Autologous Stem-Cell Transplantation Procedure All patients with ...

Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Colon Cancer: More Than Just an Optical Illusion In the article that accompanies this editorial, Jemaa et al 12 present a machine learning model for the reading and ...