A member asked:

Is it possible for an mri or and x-ray to show if someone has cancer in their foot?

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Dr. Ashley Vanderloop answered

Specializes in Podiatry

Not definitively: Advanced imaging can reveal abnormalities in the bone and soft tissue. The gold standard in identifying if the abnormality is in fact a cancer, is to take a surgical biopsy... which then needs to be reviewed by a pathologist for definitive diagnosis.

Answered 5/23/2015

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