MRI scans are much better than mammograms for detecting cancer in women with dense breasts, study finds About half of women over 40 have dense breasts; about 10% have very dense ones That raises their risk of cancer and makes it harder to spot on mammograms Researchers studied different scanning methods on 40,000 Dutch women aged […]
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Brain scans reveal how the human brain compensates when one hemisphere is removed
Researchers studying six adults who had one of their brain hemispheres removed during childhood to reduce epileptic seizures found that the remaining half of the brain formed unusually strong connections between different functional brain networks, which potentially help the body to function as if the brain were intact. The case study, which investigates brain function […]
Blood test detects if breast cancer will return a YEAR before scans
Pioneering blood test can detect if breast cancer will return almost a YEAR before secondary tumours appear on hospital scans The pioneering ‘liquid biopsy’ is almost 80 per cent accurate, tests have found It analyses a patient’s blood for DNA fragments released by their own tumours Charities have praised the ‘extremely exciting’ results of the […]