Getting preventive care is one of the most important steps you can take to manage your health. Screening can detect early cancers when the diseases are potentially more treatable and curable.
Contrast agents help radiologists see some details on scans that are not visible otherwise. Here’s how we ensure safety while using MRI and CT contrast.
CT colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, is equally effective, less invasive, safer and faster than standard colonoscopy for colon cancer screening. So, why is it not widely used?
New imaging technology developed at UCSF in collaboration with GE Healthcare will rely on a natural form of sugar to noninvasively and precisely image tumors and see if cancer medication is effectively working. A new study effectively detected tumors in patients with prostate cancer.
Men with low-grade prostate cancer are increasingly opting for active surveillance to manage their disease and diagnostic imaging tests may play an important role in this setting.
Transjugular Interhepatic Portosystemic Shunts, or “TIPS,” is now a common alternative treatment for patients with cirrhosis and other forms of advanced liver disease. UCSF has become one of the leading teaching facilities where external interventional radiologists come to learn how to perform this alternative treatment.
Advocates for virtual colonoscopy aremore hopeful than ever for the acceptance of the exam as an effective screening method by the U.S. Preventative Task Force and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.