Lung Cancer

Self-Organizing Map (SOM) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) Models for the Prediction of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR/ ErbB-1) Inhibitors.

EGFR (ErbB-1/HER1) kinase plays an important role in cancer therapy. Two classification models were established to predict whether a compound is an inhibitor or a decoy of human EGFR (ErbR-1) by using Kohonen's self-organizing map (SOM) and support vector machine (SVM). A dataset containing 1248 ATP binding site inhibitors and 3090 decoys was collected and randomly divided into a training set (831...

Robotic Assisted Extended Sleeve Lobectomy After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.

A 61-year-old man had experienced an irritating cough for 1 month. He received a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma by bronchoscopy. Computed tomography showed a mass in the left hilum and mediastinal lymph node enlargement. After two cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, the patient underwent a robotic assisted atypical sleeve lobectomy (left lower lobe + S4+5). The patient's postoperative course was...

Left lower lobectomy and systematic lymph node dissection by complete video-assisted thoracic surgery.

A 50-year-old female was administered with left lower lobe lesion for 10 days. A preoperative chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a mass in the le...

Video-assisted thoracic surgery left upper lobectomy with systematic lymphadenectomy.

A 62-year-old woman was referred to the Thoracic Surgery Department after computed tomography (CT) revealed a 1.0 cm × 1.1 cm mass peripherally in the...

Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy in semiprone position: primary experience of 105 cases.

BACKGROUND: Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is becoming popular, and uniportal lobectomy in semiprone position was reported in 2014. ...

A preliminary study on the relationship between circulating tumor cells count and clinical features in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the clinical value of circulating tumor cells (CTC) count in peripheral venous blood of patients with non-small cell lung carc...

[Enhanced radiosensitivity of H22 ascitic tumor to 12C6+ ions radiation in ultra-filtration extract mixture from Astragalus mongholicus-treated mice].

This study was designed to investigate the impact of ultra-filtration extract mixture from Astragals mongholicus (UEMAM) o radiosensitivity of H22 asc...

Proposal for a Simple and Efficient Monthly Quality Management Program Assessing the Consistency of Robotic Image-Guided Small Animal Radiation Systems.

Modern pre-clinical radiation therapy (RT) research requires high precision and accurate dosimetry to facilitate the translation of research findings ...

[R0 Resection by Distal Pancreatectomy with En Bloc Celiac Axis Resection after Down-Staging by FOLFIRINOX Therapy in a Case of Pancreas Cancer--Report of a Case].

The patient, a 55-year-old man, was diagnosed elsewhere as having cancer of the tail of the pancreas and was referred to our hospital. Abdominal compu...

[A Case of Bladder Adenocarcinoma with Rectal Metastasis].

A 77 year-old man with asymptomatic microscopic hematuria underwent a cystoscopic examination, which identified a broad-based papillary tumor at the c...

Robotic-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Early-Stage Lung Cancer: A Review.

This review evaluates the benefits and disadvantages associated with the use of robotic-assisted technology in performing lobectomies in patients with...

Validating FMEA output against incident learning data: A study in stereotactic body radiation therapy.

PURPOSE: Though failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is becoming more widely adopted for risk assessment in radiation therapy, to our knowledge, i...

The combination of artificial neural networks and synchrotron radiation-based infrared micro-spectroscopy for a study on the protein composition of human glial tumors.

Protein-related changes associated with the development of human brain gliomas are of increasing interest in modern neuro-oncology. It is due to the f...

Models for predicting objective function weights in prostate cancer IMRT.

PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate the clinical applicability of advanced machine learning models that simultaneously predict multiple optimization obje...

Automatic learning-based beam angle selection for thoracic IMRT.

PURPOSE: The treatment of thoracic cancer using external beam radiation requires an optimal selection of the radiation beam directions to ensure effec...

Efficacy Analysis of a Script-based Guide for EVAR Execution: is it Possible to Reduce Patient Exposure to Contrast, Operative Time and Blood Loss even when Advanced Technologies are not Available?

INTRODUCTION: Despite the patient and medical staff exposure to radiation in endovascular aneurysm repair, the benefits of this abdominal aortic aneur...