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...Gamma-radiation knives, wondrous devices that focus tiny cobalt beams precisely on microscopic brain malignancies and malformations, cost $3 million each but may ultimately reduce the need for other costly therapies and thus afford a net saving to society. Sophisticated scanning devices--computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear-imaging systems--cost hospitals millions of dollars, and patients (or their insurers) are typically charged thousands for their use. But by pinpointing hard-to-find tumors and other signs of disease, these machines save invaluable time and further diagnostic testing...
...medical advances of the final third of our century have been equally dazzling. They include arthroscopic and laparoscopic surgery, effective chemotherapy, the newer reproductive technologies and highly specific drug treatment of mental diseases. Physicians now routinely use sophisticated imaging techniques such as CAT and PET scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and vastly improved radioisotope methods for diagnosis and treatment, plus X ray-guided therapeutic and diagnostic interventions. The increased understanding of ultramicroscopic cellular activities has led to the development of new drugs for a wide variety of disorders, including heart disease...
...test to detect if PROSTATE CANCER has spread to other tissues has been recommended for approval by an FDA advisory panel. Called ProstaScint, it's six times as accurate as the CT scan and MRI imaging techniques used today...
...Research indicates that a new type of MRI may allow BREAST CANCER patients to find out almost immediately if their chemotherapy treatment is likely to be effective. The image reveals if the drugs are directly attacking the cancer site...
...method of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has pinpointed exactly where tiny TUMORS OF THE BREAST'S MILK DUCT are located in 95% of the women studied. Using mri, doctors can with greater confidence treat malignancies by removing a small amount of tissue in a lumpectomy, rather than performing a more invasive mastectomy...