Papillary craniopharyngiomas (PCPs) are a rare type of brain tumor that cause substantial morbidity for patients. While surgery and radiation are often used to treat PCPs, incomplete removal of the tumor and toxicity from ...
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Leaders from 12 nuclear medicine organizations around the world have issued a white paper about the challenges and opportunities in theranostics education. Published in the June issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the ...
Jun 23, 2023
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Precision medicine seeks to adapt treatments to the characteristics of each patient. Genome studies are providing more and more data to achieve this, but this very abundance of information is hampering the task: Doctors must ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a computational approach to predict whether a person with type 2 diabetes will develop kidney disease, a frequent and dangerous ...
May 15, 2023
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In recent years, the use of big data in health care has become more prevalent, and one area where it is proving particularly useful is in precision medicine. Precision medicine aims to provide more personalized health care ...
Apr 19, 2023
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One of the great challenges in the fight against cancer is to design new technologies for a personalized treatment for each patient. Depending on the molecular characteristics—DNA mutations for instance—of each tumor, ...
Mar 31, 2023
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Breast cancer risk estimates for individual women vary substantially depending on which risk assessment model is used, and women are likely receiving vastly different recommendations depending on the model used and the cutoff ...
Feb 14, 2023
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The most comprehensive study to date of the blood cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, has provided fascinating insights into what tumor cells must do to survive. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute found that cancer cells ...
Feb 13, 2023
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At any time, most cancer patients are receiving a treatment that does not significantly benefit them while they endure bodily and financial toxicity. Aiming to guide each patient to the most optimal treatment, precision medicine ...
Dec 20, 2022
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Nearly half of all American adults have elevated blood pressure or hypertension. High blood pressure contributes to 65% of cardiovascular deaths in the United States. Exponential advances in genomic sequencing technology ...
Dec 16, 2022
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