Sentences with phrase «detect than cancer»

«The edge of a tumor is more challenging to detect than cancer versus healthy tissue due to a mix of different tissue types, and it is the edge that surgeons want to know about,» Ramanujam says.

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Dexter Hadley thinks that artificial intelligence (AI) could do a far better job at detecting breast cancer than doctors do — if screening algorithms could be trained on...

The company's cloud - based platform collects a patient's DNA and can screen more than 1,000 problematic genes to detect conditions such as hereditary cancer, neurological conditions, or cardiovascular disorders.

James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.

More than two years later, the cancer was detected by a second physician, three months after the deadline by which she could sue the hospital, which she said had given her a clean bill of health.

Colorectal cancer is largely treatable when detected in the early stages, but sadly, due to low screening rates, fewer than 40 percent of cases are caught early.

If they are, ctDNA testing could become a way of detecting breast cancer metastasis much earlier than is currently possible.

But the scientists found that 30 percent more high - risk cancers — those that doctors want to detect — were diagnosed through targeted biopsy than standard biopsy (173 vs. 122 cases) and 17 percent fewer low - risk cancers — those that are often over-diagnosed and over-treated (213 vs. 258).

Targeted biopsy using new fusion technology that combines magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ultrasound is more effective than standard biopsy in detecting high - risk prostate cancer, according to a large - scale study published today in JAMA.

Patients were considered free of MRD if less than one cancer cell could be detected in 1,000 normal bone marrow cells.

«HPV testing is better than the Pap test at detecting cervical cancer.»

Instead, researchers told the European Breast Cancer Conference that their findings suggest that extending screening programs to older women results in a large proportion of women being over-treated, and at risk from the harmful effects of such treatment, because these women were more likely to die from other causes than from any tumors detected in the early stages of growth.

FDG - PET, a method that the University of Pennsylvania helped pioneer, has been used for more than two decades to detect tumors and determine the extent to which cancer has spread.

Although women who got mammograms had more breast cancers detected than those who didn't, this increase in detection did not translate into lives saved.

«We showed with this technique that we can detect very tiny tumors of just a few hundred cells,» Lu said, adding that the study pushed imaging boundaries, revealing smaller cancers than can be detected with current clinical imaging modalities.

The technology successfully detected the cancer cells with less than 1 percent incidence of false - negative results.

Another factor in the lower numbers could be that 3 percent fewer women had mammograms in 2003 than in 2000, reducing the likelihood of a cancer's being detected.

A new medical imaging method being developed at Rutgers University could help physicians detect cancer and other diseases earlier than before, speeding treatment and reducing the need for invasive, time - consuming biopsies.

Pancreatic cancer is a stealthy cancer that is usually detected at very late stages and has a 5 - year survival rate of less than 5 percent.

But that assumption can cause «medical mischief,» according to the NIH's Kramer, who says that detecting such early - stage cancers can cause more harm than good if the cancer cells were unlikely to have caused a problem over the person's lifetime.

Over 90 percent of prostate cancers are detected at a curable stage, with men more likely to die of other diseases than from this cancer.

Saying current noninvasive approaches for detection of urothelial cancer are suboptimal, researchers wanted to develop a test for bladder and UTUC cancer that would allow it to be found sooner and cheaper than current methods using cytology, which is not particularly sensitive and does not do well in detecting low - grade bladder cancer or UTUC.

«New technology can detect tiny ovarian tumors: «Synthetic biomarkers» could be used to diagnose ovarian cancer months earlier than now possible.»

A new blood test seems to be more than twice as good at detecting bowel cancer than the method currently used to screen for polyps and early bowel cancer

Some studies have detected differences in the types of gut bacteria in obese and thin people, for example, while others have shown that hunter - gatherers harbor more diverse gut bacteria than do people in the industrialized world — a difference that may protect preagricultural communities from Crohn's disease and colon cancer.

«Researchers build liquid biopsy chip that detects metastatic cancer cells in blood: More effective than existing microfluidic devices, the breakthrough technology.»

Of the 230 detected breast cancers, almost half were from the group with the lowest ranked breast density, while slightly less than 3 percent came from women in the highest breast density category.

Ovarian cancer is difficult to detect early, and fewer than half of the 22,000 women diagnosed annually in the United States will live more than 5 years.

The chosen tracer has a short half - life, so the exposure to radiation is no greater than what is now used in the many PET scans used to detect cancer.

(HealthDay)-- A protein «biomarker» in bile correctly identifies pancreatic cancer and may detect the cancer earlier than some markers in blood, according to a new study.

Some of the tumors were less than 300 microns in diameter (a single red blood cell, by comparison, is about 7 microns across), and the new MRI also detected ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor to invasive cancer.

«Our findings might give clinicians a way to detect cancer earlier than is now possible,» he says.

This test is more accurate for detecting colon cancer than polyps, but it can not detect all DNA mutations that indicate that a tumor is present.

Although melanoma is often easier to detect in its earlier stages than most cancers, it is also more likely to spread (metastasize) to other parts of the body.

Unfortunately, fewer than 20 % of patients are candidates for surgery, because pancreatic cancer is usually detected after it has spread.

When Amy turns 40, she begins colorectal cancer screening based on her higher - than - average risk factors, and at age 45 a precancerous polyp is detected in her colon and is successfully removed.

Hollings Cancer Center is home to more than 120 scientists conducting research and collaborating on better ways to prevent, detect, diagnose and treat this complex disease.

«Several new blood tests are being studied to see if they can detect liver cancer earlier than using by using AFP and ultrasound,» Fong said.

The term «nanotechnology» entered into the public vernacular quite suddenly around the turn of the century, right around the same time that, when announcing the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in 2001 [2000; see the American Association for the Advancement of Science webpage on Historical Trends in Federal R&D, scroll down to the National Nanotechnology Initiative and click on the Jpg or Excel links], President Bill Clinton declared that it would one day build materials stronger than steel, detect cancer at its inception, and store the vast records of the Library of Congress in a device the size of a sugar cube.

In these cases, UroSEEK could be detecting clonal proliferations in the bladder epithelium that did not progress to cancer, and such proliferations may be more common in patients with BC than in the general population Risques and Kennedy, 2018Because only one biopsy from the primary tumor was available for comparison, it is also possible that intratumoral heterogeneity explains some of the discrepancies.

If you're younger than 50, Dr. Levy suggests requesting a digital mammogram, which is better able to detect cancers in dense breasts (the kind that younger women tend to have).

What most people I know who have gotten a thermogram don't seem to have been told is that thermograms only detect surface bloodflow, so any cancer growth deeper than a few millimeters may not be detected unless it also happens to be large enough to

Based on more than 20 years of research, the Oncoblot Test can detect 27 types of cancer in your body, as small as the size of a pin head!

Dr. Kevin Kelly can detect breast cancer sooner than mammography with his invention SonoCiné.

Most human trials are not carried out long enough to detect any increase in cancer rates, but in one trial, breast cancer rates of those taking a statin were 1500 percent higher than those of controls.

A guide dog dropout learned to detect bladder, kidney, and prostate cancer, accurately spotting cancer 95 percent of the time — better than some lab tests used for cancer screenings, according to a study in the European Respiratory Journal that also highlighted four trained dogs that could detect lung cancer with an accuracy of 71 percent while properly ruling out cancer 93 percent of the time.

Dogs, boasting about 300 million scent receptors per nose, can detect tiny chemical changes in the human body that signal cancer or diabetes faster than laboratory results, NaturalNews.com and TrueActivist.com reported recently.

Research has indicated that dogs can be trained to detect if someone has cancer by sniffing them, sometimes more accurately than any known modern technology.

In fact, if detected early, cancer can often be more treatable than other geriatric diseases such as renal and cardiac disease.

A study presented at the American Urological Association's annual meeting in May reported that two German shepherds trained at the Italian ministry of defense's Military Veterinary Center were able to detect prostate cancer in urine with about 98 % accuracy, far better than the prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test.