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April 25, 2013
Depending on the recall strategy, integrated mammography strategy can reduce false-positive recall.
The imaging technique of DTI allows neurosurgeons to visualize important pathways in the brain. This allows them to better adapt brain tumor surgeries and preserve language, visual function, and motor function while removing cancerous tissue.
Two noninvasive technologies detected tumor response to therapy weeks earlier than tumor volume changes reflected.
Fluorescence form 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) has been used to guide resection of recurrent GBM. Before surgery, the patient ingests 5-ALA, then the tumor cells fluoresce intraoperatively in response to certain wavelengths of light.
The radiation dose to areas of the body near the breast during mammography is negligible, or very low, and does not result in an increased risk of cancer, according to a new study.
Adding three-dimensional breast imaging to standard digital mammography increases diagnostic accuracy and reduces false-positive recall rates.
Adding three-dimensional imaging to standard digital mammography significantly increases the diagnostic accuracy of radiologists while reducing the rate of false positive recalls.
Black women have the highest death rate from breast cancer of all racial and ethnic groups, and are 40% more likely to die of the disease than are white women, according to a new report from the CDC.
The system promises to bring objectivity and automation to the cancer grading process, which determines the aggressiveness of the treatment offered to the patient.
Straightforward imaging of the breast with an infrared, thermal camera can detect cancer early without the discomfort or inconvenience of mammography or biomolecular tests.
Positron emission tomography (PET) can non-invasively predict how much of a cancer-killing drug is absorbed by a tumor. This preliminary study, conducted in lung cancer patients, found that less than 1% of docetaxel is absorbed by the tumors.
Positron emission tomography (PET) can non-invasively predict how much of a cancer-killing drug is absorbed by a tumor. This preliminary study, conducted in lung cancer patients, found that less than 1% of docetaxel is absorbed by the tumors.
The new method produces 3D diagnostic computed tomography images with a spatial resolution that is two or three times higher than present hospital scanners, but has a radiation dose that is 25x lower.
Assessing how water moves through breast tissue may reduce false-positive findings among women undergoing dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI.
The somo-V Automated Breast Ultrasound System received FDA approval for use in combination with standard mammography in women with dense breast tissue.
The selective use of preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) did not reduce the number of reoperations among women with breast cancer.
Screening has benefits in terms of lives saved that outweigh the harms caused by over-diagnosis, according to a major review of breast cancer screening services in Europe. The review was jointly led by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London.
An analysis of breath samples from patients with pulmonary nodules distinguished benign from malignant growths in a recent study.
A new optical imaging technology could give doctors new ways to both identify breast cancer and to monitor the responses of individual patients to initial treatments of the disease. Tufts Medical Center in Boston is now undertaking a five-year clinical study of the procedure through a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Preoperative imaging detected more positive sentinel lymph nodes and improved disease-free survival among patients with cutaneous melanoma.
Adding endorectal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to the initial clinical evaluation of men with clinically low-risk prostate cancer helps to assess eligibility for active surveillance.
Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography detects high-grade prostate cancer better than conventional methods, and so it is a more appropriate approach for screening clinically important cancers and monitoring low-risk ones with fewer biopsies.
High mammographic breast density is not related to the risk of dying from breast cancer, as reported by a team of researchers at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Maryland.
Lying face-down was associated with a reduced amount of irradiated lung and heart during breast cancer treatment compared with lying on the back.
A lung cancer risk-prediction model effectively identified individuals who would benefit most from low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening.
August 17, 2012
Good endoscopic equipment, endoscopic surgery, and good tissue samples are key to diagnosing and managing esophageal conditions.
Using positron emission tomography (PET) to image progesterone receptor status in breast tumors may show who on hormone therapy will benefit.
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery wants annual lung cancer screening for 55-to-79-year-olds with a 30 pack-year history of smoking.
July 11, 2012
Advances in imaging for breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and response assessment are more promising now than ever before.
Magnetic resonance imaging better predicted pathologic responses to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer than did clinical assessment.
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