Colon Cancer

Use of quantum dot beads-labeled monoclonal antibody to improve the sensitivity of a quantitative and simultaneous immunochromatographic assay for neuron specific enolase and carcinoembryonic antigen.

Detection of multiplex tumor markers was of great importance for cancer diagnosis. Immunochromatographic test strip (ICTS) was the most frequently-used point-of-care detection means. Herein, a convenient and fast method for simultaneous quantitative detection of neuron specific enolase (NSE) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was developed based on ICTS using quantum dot beads (QBs) as marking mat...

Automatic Detection and Classification of Colorectal Polyps by Transferring Low-Level CNN Features From Nonmedical Domain.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Although polypectomy at early stage reduces CRC incidence, 90% of the polyps are small and diminutive, where removal of them poses risks to patients that may outweigh the benefits. Correctly detecting and predicting polyp type during colonoscopy allows endoscopists to resect and discard the tissue without submitting it for hist...

Ductal Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate: A Case Report.

Ductal adenocarcinoma is an unusual variant of adenocarcinoma of the prostate. A 73-year-old male was referred to our hospital for the further examina...

Comparison of inflammatory responses following robotic and open colorectal surgery: a prospective study.

PURPOSE: Robotic colorectal surgery continues to rise in popularity, but there remains little evidence on the stress response following the procedure....

High peroxidase-like activity of iron and nitrogen co-doped carbon dots and its application in immunosorbent assay.

Herein, iron and nitrogen co-doped carbon dots (Fe-N-CDs) were synthesized through a solvothermal method assisting with the microwave synthesis system...

Exploring Deep Learning and Transfer Learning for Colonic Polyp Classification.

Recently, Deep Learning, especially through Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has been widely used to enable the extraction of highly representativ...

Robotic Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Single-Surgeon Initial Experience.

Minimally invasive surgery has gained increasing acceptance over the last few years, which has expanded to pancreaticoduodenectomy. Laparoscopic pancr...

Detection of clinically important colorectal surgical site infection using Bayesian network.

BACKGROUND: Despite extensive efforts to monitor and prevent surgical site infections (SSIs), real-time surveillance of clinical practice has been spa...

New acetylenic derivatives of betulin and betulone, synthesis and cytotoxic activity.

Betulin and its semisynthetic derivatives exhibit a cytotoxic activity toward various cancer cell lines. These compounds are a promising and potentia...

Hypofractionated image guided radiation therapy followed by prostate seed implant boost for men with newly diagnosed intermediate and high risk adenocarcinoma of the prostate: Preliminary results of a phase 2 prospective study.

PURPOSE: A phase 2 protocol was designed and implemented to assess the toxicity and efficacy of hypofractionated image guided intensity modulated radi...

Cytotoxic and Antimicrobial Constituents from the Essential Oil of Lippia alba (Verbenaceae).

(Verbenaceae) is a plant widely used in folk medicine to treat various diseases. The present work deals with the chemical composition of the crude es...

Models of logistic regression analysis, support vector machine, and back-propagation neural network based on serum tumor markers in colorectal cancer diagnosis.

We evaluated the application of three machine learning algorithms, including logistic regression, support vector machine and back-propagation neural n...

The diagnostic value of serum CEA, NSE and MMP-9 for on-small cell lung cancer.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. But no one type of serum biomarker was found to be highly ...

Laparoscopic versus robotic right colectomy: technique and outcomes.

Minimally invasive surgery has gained worldwide acceptance in the treatment of colonic cancer in the last decades, thanks to its well-known advantages...

Locality Sensitive Deep Learning for Detection and Classification of Nuclei in Routine Colon Cancer Histology Images.

Detection and classification of cell nuclei in histopathology images of cancerous tissue stained with the standard hematoxylin and eosin stain is a ch...

Quantitative assessment of colorectal morphology: Implications for robotic colonoscopy.

This paper presents a method of characterizing the distribution of colorectal morphometrics. It uses three-dimensional region growing and topological ...

Laparoscopic para-aortic lymph node dissection for patients with primary colorectal cancer and clinically suspected para-aortic lymph nodes.

PURPOSE: Treatment of patients with para-aortic lymph node metastasis from colorectal cancer is controversial. The goal of this study was to investiga...

Preoperative Serum Interleukin-6 Is a Potential Prognostic Factor for Colorectal Cancer, including Stage II Patients.

Aims. To evaluate the prognostic significance of serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) in colorectal cancer (CRC). Patients and Methods. Preoperative serum IL-6 ...

Robot-assisted surgery for the radical treatment of deep infiltrating endometriosis with colorectal involvement: short- and mid-term surgical and functional outcomes.

PURPOSE: Sexual and urinary dysfunctions are complications in radical treatment of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) with colorectal involvement. ...

Fabrication of highly catalytic silver nanoclusters/graphene oxide nanocomposite as nanotag for sensitive electrochemical immunoassay.

Silver nanoclusters and graphene oxide nanocomposite (AgNCs/GRO) is synthesized and functionalized with detection antibody for highly sensitive electr...