Oncology & Cancer
New technology could let women skip annual mammograms
Technology developing at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is on track to predict if and when breast cancer will appear.
Apr 27, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Dual-energy CT imaging improves pancreatic cancer assessment
Dual-energy CT (DECT) has several potential applications in the detection, characterization, staging, and follow-up of pancreatic cancer patients, according to a new study conducted at Johns Hopkins University.
Apr 20, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
MRI screening program for individuals at high risk of pancreatic cancer
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based screening program for individuals at high risk of pancreatic cancer identified pancreatic lesions in 16 of 40 (40 percent) of patients, of whom 5 five underwent surgery, according ...
Apr 8, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
90 percent of all breast cancers can be detected with MRI
Around 90 per cent of all breast cancers can be definitively diagnosed using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This compares to the combined methods of mammography and ultrasound which yielded a detection rate of just 37.5 ...
Apr 7, 2015
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Improving cancer treatment through better imaging technologies
Since January 2014, the HELICOID project has been developing hyperspectral imaging technologies capable of differentiating between healthy and diseased tissues. The February 2015 meeting in Brussels enabled project partners ...
Mar 6, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Watching the death throes of tumours
A clinical trial due to begin later this year will see scientists observing close up, in real time – and in patients – how tumours respond to new drugs.
Feb 26, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
FDA approves high-tech breast imaging system
After more than a decade of development and data-gathering—including breast scans on nearly 700 women and 79 patents issued—the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a breast-cancer imaging system invented by ...
Feb 4, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers discover biological markers associated with high-risk pancreatic lesions
Pancreatic cancer affects approximately 46,000 people each year in the United States and ranks fourth among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Only about 6 percent of individuals with pancreatic cancer will live ...
Feb 2, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Novel imaging technique improves prostate cancer detection
In 2014, prostate cancer was the leading cause of newly diagnosed cancers in men and the second leading cause of cancer death in men. Writing in the January 6, 2015 issue of the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Disease, ...
Jan 6, 2015
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Medical research
Scientists investigate use of cognitive computing-based visual analytics for skin cancer image analysis
IBM announced today a collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering to research the application of cognitive computing to analyze dermatological images of skin lesions with the goal of assisting clinicians in the identification ...
Dec 18, 2014
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