Search Tag: cancer diagnosis
2024 26 Jul
The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €2 billion Dutch measure to support the PALLAS project aimed at producing medical radioisotopes for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The measure contributes to ensuring security of supply of essential and live-saving medicines in line with the Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe...Read more
2024 28 May
Prostate MRI is pivotal in managing prostate cancer, employing tools like PI-RADS for detection and localization. Various MRI-based scoring systems serve multiple purposes, such as evaluating image quality, monitoring changes during active surveillance, and assessing recurrence risk after treatments. Yet, confusion persists regarding their proper...Read more
2024 09 Dec
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2024 19 Mar
The global demand for imaging tests to assess cancer is increasing, but there's a shortage of imaging specialists, particularly in low and middle-income countries. This leads to delays in scan reporting and patient management. Artificial intelligence (AI) using deep neural networks (DNNs) could help handle high scan volumes while maintaining diagnostic...Read more
2024 19 Mar
The global demand for imaging tests to assess cancer is increasing, but there's a shortage of imaging specialists, particularly in low and middle-income countries. This leads to delays in scan reporting and patient management. Artificial intelligence (AI) using deep neural networks (DNNs) could help handle high scan volumes while maintaining diagnostic...Read more
2024 17 Feb
Delays in the diagnosis of skin cancer, attributed to the COVID-19 lockdowns, have resulted in an estimated 100,000 years of life being lost and a financial impact of €7.1 billion across Europe, a recent study suggests. This research, disclosed last Friday in the Jama Network Open journal, underscores the severe outcomes of the 2020 and...Read more
2023 30 Aug
The goal of healthcare is to promote and maintain the well-being of individuals and communities by preventing, diagnosing, treating, and managing diseases, injuries, and other health conditions. Healthcare aims to improve patient’s quality of life, enhance their life expectancy, and ensure they can have access to the services and interventions needed...Read more
2023 30 Aug
The goal of healthcare is to promote and maintain the well-being of individuals and communities by preventing, diagnosing, treating, and managing diseases, injuries, and other health conditions. Healthcare aims to improve patient’s quality of life, enhance their life expectancy, and ensure they can have access to the services and interventions needed...Read more
2019 14 May
Breast density is recognised as a risk factor for breast cancer, and dense breast tissue can decrease mammographic sensitivity, leading to diagnostic delay . This is of particular concern to women in their 40s and 50s , for whom the prevalence of dense breasts ranges from 38% to 57%. Concerns about the low sensitivity of screening mammography...Read more
2018 09 Nov
A new consortium is set to lead the way for artificial intelligence (AI) application in cancer diagnosis research in a globally-leading, multi-million pound venture named the Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC). Led by University and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK, the Northern Pathology Imaging Co-operative (NPIC),...Read more
2017 04 Jun
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk Research Institute of Oncology and the Institute of Biorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a radiopharmaceutical for advanced identification of cancer. Labelled as the technetium-99 isotope, the medication is ready for pre-clinical phase trial. The radiopharmaceutical...Read more
2016 20 Sep
We've all seen computer programmes defeat humans in Chess, Jeopardy and other similar games but now a programme has outperformed physicians at brain cancer diagnoses. Developed at Case Western Reserve University, this computer programme turned out to be twice as accurate as two neuroradiologists in determining whether abnormal tissue on MRI were...Read more
2015 14 Jul
Scientists at the research Institute MIRA at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have developed PAMmograph, a new technique to detect breast cancer. PAMmography is based on the physical principle of photoacoustics and uses short bursts of light that cause ultrasonic waves to be generated in places with high density of blood vessels. Details...Read more
2015 07 Apr
Physicians are taught to deliver the results of patients’ biopsies in person, but a survey of patients at three US melanoma clinics indicates that many patients prefer an expedient phone call to the longer wait associated with a face-to-face follow-up visit. “We thought they would want it to be in person or by email, but it turned out that the phone...Read more
2015 26 Feb
Many physicians struggle to deliver bad news to cancer patients. They must balance the need to honestly inform patients about their prognoses while expressing empathy. According to new research, cancer patients who are given an optimistic message from their doctors which includes possible future treatment options are more likely to perceive a higher...Read more
2014 05 Nov
More than 800 markers have been identified in the blood of cancer patients that could potentially lead to the development of a single blood test for early detection of many cancer types. In a study conducted by the UK Early Cancer Detection Consortium (ECDC), which was presented at the National Cancer Research Institute Conference in Liverpool, researchers...Read more
2014 21 Jul
A new self-assembling nanoparticle has been designed to allow. the ability to diagnose cancer earlier. Developed by a team of researchers at Imperial College London, this new nanoparticle seeks out receptors in cancerous cells, thus boosting the effectiveness of MRI scanning. It is coated with a special protein that detects signals given off by tumours....Read more
2014 25 Apr
The agreement includes CE Mark performance evaluation and doubles the Hospital’s prospective trial of 20 cancers, adding a range of additional vital background work VolitionRx Limited, a life sciences company focused on developing blood-based diagnostic tests for different types of cancer, has announced that VolitionRx has extended its agreement...Read more
2014 07 Feb
Currently being developed by University of Washington scientists and engineers, a novel, credit-card sized, low cost device could assist pathologists in their analysis of biopsies and the subsequent diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in an earlier and faster manner than ever before. The prototype is able to conduct basic steps required for processing...Read more