OBJECTIVE: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer in UK. Symptomatic patients are referred via an urgent pathway and although most are investigated with colonoscopy <4% are diagnosed with cancer. There is therefore a need for a suit...
Despite considerable research efforts, pancreatic cancer is associated with a dire prognosis and a 5-year survival rate of only 10%. Early symptoms of the disease are mostly nonspecific. The premise of improved survival through early detection is tha...
Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
Jan 1, 2021
BACKGROUND: The differential diagnosis of ovarian cancer is important, and there has been ongoing research to identify biomarkers with higher performance. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic utility of combinations of cancer markers classifie...
BACKGROUND: In the field of breast screening using mammography, announcing to the examinees whether they are dense or not has not been deprecated in Japan. One of the reasons is a shortage of objectivity estimating their dense breast. Our aim is to b...
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
Jan 1, 2021
To date, widely generalizable artificial intelligence (AI) programs for medical image analysis have not been demonstrated, including for mammography. Rather than pursuing a strategy of collecting ever-larger databases in the attempt to build generali...
We learned many unanticipated and valuable lessons since we started planning our study of low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer in 1991. The publication of the baseline results of the Early Lung Cancer Action Project (ELCAP) in ...
BACKGROUND: Colon cancer generally begins as a neoplastic growth of tissue, called polyps, originating from the inner lining of the colon wall. Most colon polyps are considered harmless but over the time, they can evolve into colon cancer, which, whe...