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February 2013
In this four-minute video interview conducted at the Arab Health Congress, Dr Shetal Shah explains that the combination of functional PET imaging with MRI provides details about cellular and molecular function that is increasingly critical to cancer characterization. While radiology was once a discipline focused only on anatomy, PET-MR allows radiologists to participate in the on-going individualization of cancer care.
by Excerpta Medica
Women at very high risk of breast cancer due to mutations in breast cancer susceptibility genes or a strong family history are recommended to undertake enhanced surveillance. Annual MRI, in addition to mammography, is the current recommendation, as mammography alone is considered insufficiently sensitive. ...
by Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology 2013
Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide and accounted for 7.6 million deaths in 2008 with primary lung cancer responsible for 1.37 million deaths alone [
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]. There are an estimated 226,160 new cases of lung cancer in 2012 in the United States with approximately 160,340 deaths [
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]....
by Biomarker Research 2013
Although evidence continues to mount that human papillomavirus (HPV)–associated squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck represents a unique entity, with distinct clinical and molecular characteristics, the optimal management for the increasing proportion of patients diagnosed with this disease...
Molecular imaging of disease biomarkers, especially cancer biomarkers, could potentially improve our understanding of the disease and drug activity during preclinical and clinical drug treatment and patient stratification.1–4 For the preclinical setting, applications of molecular imaging are useful...
by WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology 2013
The preoperative diagnostic evaluation and staging of rectal cancer are important in terms of planning therapy and determining prognosis because therapeutic approaches and clinical outcomes in rectal cancer are strongly influenced by preoperative staging.
In recent years, there has been an increase in...
by Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 2013
January 2013
Anatomical variations occurring during irradiation, including tumor shrinkage and shape deformation, can be significant and can result in suboptimal treatment of patients, especially when highly conformal treatment techniques, such as intensity modulated photon or proton therapy, are used [ ,]. Repeat...
by Radiation Oncology 2012
In breast cancer treatment, the use of neoadjuvant systemic therapy is increasing with more effective chemotherapeutic regimes expanding therapeutic indications. Approximately 5%–10% of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients present with locally advanced ...
by Annals of Oncology 2012
Recently, several studies have confirmed the advantages of delivering high doses of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) to achieve optimal tumor-control outcomes in patients with localized prostate cancer. It is now clear that conventional EBRT doses in the range of 70 Gy are not sufficient to eradicate...
by Radiation Oncology 2012
As a result of the widespread utilization of diagnostic abdominal imaging, the incidence of asymptomatic small renal masses (SRMs) has continued to increase . In the USA, the estimated number of new kidney cancer cases has increased from 39 000 in 2006 to 61 000 in 2011 ....
by BJU International 2012