His mother, Nicola, said it took 14 months for Kieran to be sent for an X-ray after first seeing a doctor about pains. More than 150 youngsters in the UK are diagnosed with bone cancer each year ...

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, or formerly DEXA) is a technique used to measure bone mineral density (BMD). The preferred regions for BMD measurement are lumbar spine, proximal femur and whole ...