More and more people are being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This disease is insidious, often only making itself known in ...

Willem Linders received some bad news in September 2024: pancreatic cancer. His illness is incurable. Nevertheless, the ...

The five-year survival rate of pancreatic cancer is around 9% ... This right here is a real patient's CT scan, and as you can see throughout its transforming, it's very hard for the human eye ...

and they performed a CT scan. It uncovered something worrisome. “I had a mass on my pancreas,” he says. “The doctor there was not ready to tell me I had pancreatic cancer.” The following ...

Unnecessarily high radiation doses in scans have been linked to cancers. Under new federal rules, doctors and imaging centers have to more closely track and report the doses of radiation that patients ...

A medical test used to detect cancer may actually be contributing to the disease, research suggests. Computerized tomography (CT) scans use X-rays to create detailed images of the body and are ...

CT scans, a go-to for diagnosing everything from tumors to infections to bone fractures, are facing increased scrutiny. Experts say the radiation doses they deliver can vary dramatically — and ...

I got my CT scans, and I met with my surgeon Dr. Laleh Melstrom who confirmed the diagnosis. She told me, "It is a rare tumor on the pancreas. It is treated with surgery, there is no other way to ...