“It was the right choice for me. I chose a bilateral mastectomy because of my age and not wanting to worry about a recurrence in the same or the other breast,” she said. “I wanted to have peace of mind.” Sumner didn’t need to have radiation after surgery and is now on endocri...
Importantly, multiparametric ultrasound did detect 4.3% fewer clinically significant cancers than multiparametric MRI and did lead to an increase (by 11.1%) of biopsies performed for imaging findings. "This suggests that, where multiparametric MRI is available, it should remain the test of choice; ...
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Many dangerous cancers grow so fast they elude screening and prove deadly anyway. And screening can do more harm than good. Anxiety from false positives. Unnecessary costs. And serious side effects from cancer care:PSA tests for mencan lead to treatment complications such as incontinence or impote...
Some animals, like cats and dogs, can detect subtle signs of illness or impending death through heightened senses. Dogs are trained to sense seizures and certain cancers by picking up on changes in smell and behavior. Animals might also detect natural disasters like earthquakes due to their abili...
But fear of cancer, a fear that in some cases exceeds the medical evidence, causes great harm all by itself. Doctors, risk experts, and other communicators need to do more to combat this threat by helping the public understand that roughly two-thirds of cancers can now be treated as chroni...
Microplastics in the ocean and other bodies of water have a direct impact on these ecosystems, because the animals that live in these waters are ingesting them. If an animal is at the bottom of the food chain, it can easily spread that plastic up the chain — just as we’re seeing huma...
"Both imaging tests missed clinically significant cancers detected by the other, so the use of both would increase the detection of clinically significant prostate cancers compared with using each test alone." Prof Ahmed commented: "[mpUSS] can detect most cases of prostate cancer with good accura...
In the new trial, called cancer diagnosis by multiparametric ultrasound of the prostate (CADMUS), the team recruited 370 men at risk of prostate cancer. They were identified following initial tests such as a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test– a blood test to help detect prostate cancer—and...
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