OBJECTIVE: Breast cancer stands as the most prevalent form of cancer among women globally. This heterogeneous disease exhibits varying clinical behaviors. The stratification of breast cancer patients into risk groups, determined by their metastasis a...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Jan 20, 2025
Doxorubicin (DOXO) is a primary treatment for breast cancer but can cause cardiotoxicity in over 25% of patients within the first year post-chemotherapy. Recognizing at-risk patients before DOXO initiation offers pathways for alternative treatments o...
Direct sampling mass spectrometry (MS) has rapidly advanced with the development of ambient ionization MS techniques. Swab touch-spray (TS)-MS has shown promise for rapid clinical diagnostics. However, commercially available swabs are notorious for t...
The inherent variability of lesions poses challenges in leveraging AI in 3D automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) for lesion detection. Traditional methods based on single scans have fallen short compared to comprehensive evaluations by experienced sono...
Cancer treatment and research communications
Jan 17, 2025
AIM: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women and the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in this population. Numerous factors have been identified as either risk factors or protective factors for breast cancer. However, the r...
Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Jan 16, 2025
PURPOSE: To train and validate KB prediction models by merging a large multi-institutional cohort of whole breast irradiation (WBI) plans using tangential fields.
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer screening plays a pivotal role in early detection and subsequent effective management of the disease, impacting patient outcomes and survival rates.
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jan 15, 2025
PURPOSE: Breast cancer remains one of the most prevalent cancers globally, necessitating effective early screening and diagnosis. This study investigates the effectiveness and generalizability of our recently proposed data augmentation technique, att...
BACKGROUND: The rising incidence of breast cancer and its heterogeneity necessitate precise tools for predicting patient prognosis and tailoring personalized treatments. Epigenetic changes play a critical role in breast cancer progression and therapy...
BACKGROUND: Breast adenoid cystic carcinoma (BACC) is a rare subtype of breast cancer that accounts for less than 0.1 % of all cases. This study was designed to assess the efficacy of various treatment approaches for BACC and to create the first web-...