There are few analyses comparing complete nephrectomy with resection of the renal parenchyma only (CN) or radical nephrectomy that includes simultaneous resection of the parenchyma, affected perirenal fascia, perirenal fat, and ureter (RN) relative t...
International journal of medical informatics
Nov 5, 2024
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to develop a novel multi-task learning approach with attention encoders for classifying histologic subtypes and clinical stages of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with superior performance compared to cu...
BACKGROUND: Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) presents a significant challenge in oncology due to its inherent heterogeneity. Traditional staging systems, such as TNM (Tumor, Node, Metastasis), provide limited information regarding patien...
There is an urgent need for better biomarkers for the detection of early-stage breast cancer. Utilizing untargeted metabolomics and lipidomics in conjunction with advanced data mining approaches for metabolism-centric biomarker discovery and validati...
BACKGROUND: Though several nomograms exist, machine learning (ML) approaches might improve prediction of pathologic stage in patients with prostate cancer. To develop ML models to predict pathologic stage that outperform existing nomograms that use r...
Medical dosimetry : official journal of the American Association of Medical Dosimetrists
Oct 10, 2024
PURPOSE: Head and Neck (H&N) cancer accounts for 3% of cancer cases in the United States. Precise tumor segmentation in H&N is of utmost importance for treatment planning and administering personalized treatment dose. We aimed to develop an automatic...
European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology
Oct 6, 2024
BACKGROUND: Precise evaluation of pathological complete response (pCR) is essential for determining the prognosis of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) and can offer clues for the selec...
Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Oct 3, 2024
BACKGROUND: Signet ring cell (SRC) gastric carcinoma is traditionally associated with a poor prognosis. However, the literature has presented contradictory results. Linear models are the standard statistical tools typically used to study these condit...
BACKGROUND: Management of anorectal cancers requires a multidisciplinary team approach. Recently, large language models have been suggested as potential tools for various applications in health care.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
Sep 26, 2024
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Accurate stratification of the risk of lymph node metastasis (LNM) following endoscopic resection of submucosal invasive (T1) colorectal cancer (CRC) is imperative for determining the necessity for additional surgery. In this syst...