A Tillamook woman is using her diagnosis of stage three rectal cancer to educate others on the importance of early screening.

After an hour, the patient is taken to the scan room for the ... the primary site of the cancer – for example, if it originated from the lung, breast or colon – PET/CT is a useful tool to ...

Each year, 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with colon cancer.Like most other cancers, it does not discriminate based on age, gender, or race. In fact, health experts say that colon cancer is being ...

Colon cancer is no different ... Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan Doctors inject a small amount of a radioactive sugar substance into the blood, then look to see how much it is absorbed ...