A 55-year-old woman in Tampa, Florida, is urging fellow smokers to keep a close eye on their health after an impromptu CT scan saved her life.

Whales may have even greater hearing sensitivity than previously thought, according to a group of San Diego State University researchers who recently managed to scan an 11-foot minke whale to examine its ears and eyes.

Radiation segmentectomy (RS) could give physicians a new tool in the fight against early-stage liver cancer, according to a new study published in Radiology. Many patients aren’t eligible for other treatment options—surgery, liver transplantation and radiofrequency ablation, for example—adding even more importance to this new research.

When performing radiotherapy treatment for lung or esophageal cancer, making small adjustments to a patient's positioning can reduce the amount of unintentional damage to the patient's heart, according to an ESTRO press release.

A lung cancer patient’s chance of survival after radiotherapy could hinge on a matter of millimeters, researchers reported at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology’s (ESTRO) 2018 conference in Barcelona.

Patients who undergo breast reconstruction using abdominal tissue have no increased risk of breast cancer recurrence, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Surgery.

A novel CT marker known as the “egg-and-banana sign” is aiding in the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (PH), an infamously hard-to-detect condition that affects hundreds of thousands of U.S. patients each year.

Briony Bishop, a consultant breast radiographer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, loves her career—but the upward climb to her dream job came hand-in-hand with her mom’s health demise.