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and chest CT (with or without contrast) every 6 to 12 months for 2 years, then examination and a chest CT without contrast annually. PET or brain MRI is not indicated. Prostate Cancer In prostate cancer, the intensity of checking prostate

started using radiation oncology benefit managers (ROBMs). 8 ROBMs are used by insurance companies to control use of high-tech imaging modalities, such as PET and MRI, and more recently to control use of expensive radiation treatments, such as IMRT, SABR

-cHL ( ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01771107). Given the reports of PML in patients treated with BV, eligibility criteria will include absolute CD4 count greater than 50 cell/μL, active antiretroviral therapy, and a pretreatment brain MRI. Until prospective

radiographs, CT scans, MRI, functional nuclear medicine imaging (PET, SPECT), and ultrasound. NCCN Imaging AUC are available through a Web-based user interface that provides a searchable and user-customized display of approved NCCN Imaging AUC. The complete

who need primary treatment, available tests currently do not aid in the decision between radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy as primary therapy. Molecular tests should be put in the context of current practice, where multiparametric MRI

less from stage IA to IB. 5 Workup A common scenario observed in NCCN melanoma clinics is the arrival of newly diagnosed asymptomatic patients with stage I and IIA disease who have undergone staging PET/CTs, MRIs, or both. Although a workup to

recommended full year of trastuzumab therapy. Twenty-seven months after completing adjuvant radiotherapy, she presented with blurry vision that rapidly progressed to right eye blindness. Brain MRI showed right globe enhancement concerning for choroidal

breast cancer considering breast conservation . Cancer Biother Radiopharm 2004 ; 19 : 673 – 705 . 14 Godinez J Gombos EC Chikarmane SA . Breast MRI in the evaluation of eligibility for accelerated partial breast irradiation . AJR Am J

surprisingly, independent risk factors for local recurrence included male sex, threatened resection margin on baseline MRI, pathologic stage III cancer, and a positive circumferential resection margin. I applaud the authors on having reconfirmed the safety

their surgical technique for fertility-sparing abdominal trachelectomy in detail. 12 , 13 All patients had standard preoperative imaging with either CT of the abdomen and pelvis or MRI of the pelvis and all had clinical stage I disease without any