The owner of the Wedding Dress in Portland was set to marry in July but after her stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis in January, ...

Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching ...

Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients ...

Under new federal rules, doctors and imaging centers have to more closely track and report the doses of radiation that ...

The scans are estimated to cause 2% of annual cancers — but new measures could keep radiation at safer levels.

People can access free or low-cost scans, “but screening is not a one-time deal. Patients should get a scan annually, and ...

Ongoing research shows it’s probably higher, since far more scans are performed today. The cancer risk from CT scans for any individual patient is very low, although it rises for patients who have ...

A new urine-based biomarker test could cut in half the need for surveillance imaging to detect recurrence of the most common ...

A man was told he had terminal cancer after Southland Hospital failed to spot cancer developing in his lung over five years ...

After a second optician’s visit a few weeks later, they referred us to the hospital, where a CT scan found a shadow in my ...