It is therefore vital to diagnose oesophageal cancer at an early stage, before the development of symptoms, when treatment can dramatically improve prognosis. Understanding the pathogenesis of these cancers is vital to guide early diagnostic strategies....
reflux symptoms such as heartburn should also visit their GP for advice.Golf star Padraig Harrington, a patron of Lollipop Day, is still haunted by the death of his father to oesophageal cancer in 2005.The sporting legend regrets he didn't recognise the signs of his dad's killer cancer. ...
Oesophageal cancer--an overview. Oesophageal carcinoma is one of the most virulent malignant diseases and a major cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Diagnosis and accuracy of pretre... M Schweigert,A Dubecz,HJ Stein - 《Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol》 被引量: 93发表: 2013年 Oesophageal...
Following detection of advanced cancers, 5-year survival rates remain bleak, making identification of early neoplasia, which has a better outcome, important. Detection of subtle oesophageal lesions during endoscopy can be challenging, and advanced imaging techniques might improve their detection. High-...
Therefore, early detection of esophageal cancer is crucial for improvement of the survival rate and the health-related quality of life of patients. In order to detect early-stage ESCCs in the absence of signs or symptoms, endoscopic screening of the esophagus is usually conducted with the aid ...
Esophageal cancer is one of the 10 most common cancers worldwide and its incidence is dramatically increasing. Despite some improvements, the current surveillance protocol with white light endoscopy and random untargeted biopsies collection (Seattle prot
Dairy products and pancreatic cancer risk Pancreatic cancer has few early symptoms, is usually diagnosed at late stages, and has a high case-fatality rate. Identifying modifiable risk factors is cr... JM Genkinger,M Wang,R Li,... - 《Annals of Oncology Official Journal of the European Societ...
The diagnosis of LTPP was defined as the new presence of these findings on chest CT compared to CT performed before surgery. CT detected “LTPP”, even in patients who had not shown any active symptoms of pneumonia. Fig. 1 Definition of the diagnosis of pneumonia based on CT a ...
Gastroscopy was performed in case of clinical symptoms. FDG PET/CT was not routinely performed in the follow-up of patients after Statistical analysis The main aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of the decrease in SUV for progression-free survival (PFS) and OS. Regression ...
Deep learning methods have been shown to achieve excellent performance on diagnostic tasks, but how to optimally combine them with expert knowledge and existing clinical decision pathways is still an open challenge. This question is particularly important for the early detection of cancer, where high-...