You may have heard the term theranostics when reading about cancer treatments, but what does it mean? The word theranostics is a combination of the words “therapy” and “diagnostics,” and theranostics does just that. It uses radioisotopes to first image a patient’s tumor for diagnostics and then therapeutically treat that tumor.

We spoke with Charles Manning, Ph.D., a cancer systems imaging researcher, to learn more about how theranostics...