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Prostate cancer scanning technique waives the need for pre-imaging biopsy in elderly patients
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Prostate cancer scanning technique waives the need for pre-imaging biopsy in elderly patients

by Society of Nuclear Medicine Credit: Journal of Nuclear Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.122.265371 In elderly patients with suspected prostate cancer, a prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography (PSMA PET) CT scan can diagnose advanced disease and aid in therapy selection without the need for a biopsy. Published in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, this new...

PET/MRI machine learning model can eliminate sentinel lymph node biopsy in majority of breast cancer patients
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PET/MRI machine learning model can eliminate sentinel lymph node biopsy in majority of breast cancer patients

by Society of Nuclear Medicine Patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer receive a PET/MRI scan to investigate axillary lymph node involvement. The radiologist then assesses whether lymph node involvement is present (nodal positive vs. nodal negative) based on easily assessable morphological and metabolic lymph node criteria. Based on these data, a random forest model is...

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Message to Forgo PSA Screening Is Not ‘Getting Through’

M. Alexander Otto, MMS, PA Screening of healthy men with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test has increased in recent years in the United States. This is despite the fact that the US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended against routine screening of healthy men since 2012. There was a bit of a change in...

Colon Explorer for Automatic Imaging and Biopsying of Polyps
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Colon Explorer for Automatic Imaging and Biopsying of Polyps

AUGUST 27TH, 2020 MEDGADGET EDITORS GI Millions of colonoscopies are performed every year to spot cancer as early as possible. The routine nature of these procedures and the constant need for them to be performed has led researchers at University of Colorado Boulder to develop a robotic tank-like device for traversing, imaging, and even biopsying...

Diagnosing brain tumors with a blood test
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Diagnosing brain tumors with a blood test

by University Health Network Dr. Daniel De Carvalho and Krembil Brain Institute Medical Director Dr. Gelareh Zadeh collaborated to combine advanced technology with machine learning to develop a highly sensitive and accurate blood test to detect and classify brain cancers. Credit: UHN A simple but highly sensitive blood test has been found to accurately diagnose...

Computer algorithms find tumors’ molecular weak spots
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Computer algorithms find tumors’ molecular weak spots

By Roxanne KhamsiJun. 11, 2020 , 2:00 PM In 2016, doctors invited Eileen Kapotes to join a clinical trial for a drug that had never been used for her disease. Kapotes, a first grade teacher in her 50s, was fighting an aggressive breast cancer that had spread through her body. She had endured grueling treatments...

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First report of systemic delivery of micro-dystrophin gene therapy in children with DMD

One-year data from the first four patients dosed is published in JAMA Neurology NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital have published in JAMA Neurology results from the first four patients treated in the first clinical trial of systemic delivery of micro-dystrophin gene therapy in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) – and initial...

Scientists develop noninvasive ultrasound neuromodulation technique
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Scientists develop noninvasive ultrasound neuromodulation technique

by Li Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder characterized by recurrent seizures resulting from excessive excitation or inadequate inhibition of neurons. Ultrasound stimulation has recently emerged as a noninvasive method for modulating brain activity; however, its range and effectiveness for different neurological disorders, such as Parkinson Disease, Epilepsy and...

Chip for Liquid Biopsy Will Help Detect Prostate Cancer
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Chip for Liquid Biopsy Will Help Detect Prostate Cancer

Researchers of Sechenov University, a Project 5-100 participant, together with their colleagues from Australia used the microfluidics technology to develop a device able to isolate cancer cells from urine of patients with prostate cancer. The study showed high sensitivity and specificity of the new method in diagnosing prostate cancer. The results obtained were published in...

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