November 2012
Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) is showing particular promise in aiding the identification of lymph node metastases, according to several recently published studies.
by Excerpta Medica
Early gastric cancer (EGC) is defined as a cancer that does not invade beyond the submucosa regardless of lymph node involvement (T1, any N). Initiation of national cancer screening programs in Japan and Korea had increased the number of EGC cases dramatically, which accounts for up to 50% of all gastric...
by Current Opinion in Gastroenterology 2012
The utility of PET-computed tomography (CT) using F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) has increasingly been studied during the last decades. Nowadays, FDG PET-CT has a major clinical impact not only for diagnosis but also for staging, response assessment, and relapse detection in cancer patients. However,...
by Current Opinion in Oncology 2012
Among currently used cancer imaging methods, nuclear medicine modalities provide metabolic information, whereas modalities in radiology provide anatomical information. However, different modalities, having different acquisition times in separate machines, decrease the specificity and accuracy of images....
by Journal of Liposome Research 2012
Of the nearly 300,000 cases of invasive and in situ breast cancers diagnosed in 2010 alone, 20–40% of these patients will experience a local recurrence (LR) and approximately half of those will have isolated recurrences . Optimal local control is noted to be important for patient outcomes. Local...
by International Journal of Breast Cancer 2012 (2012)
Colorectal cancer is the third most common malignancy in Europe, and the lung is the second most common site for metastatic
disease, after the liver. Surgical resection is offered to patients with limited pulmonary metastases and no extrapulmonary
disease with a reported...
by CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology 2012
Medical imaging is used routinely in oncology for diagnosis, staging and assessment of treatment response, but is less reliable
for predicting response or for inferring prognosis before therapy has been instigated, such that the ability to stratify patients
to different...
by European Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2012