To assess the number of missed prostate cancers and the frequency of aggressive disease when taking lateralized sextant prostate biopsies, irrespective of the total prostate volume (Pvol), during screening for prostate cancer. Men participating in the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate...
Cancer is caused by a number of factors, some of which we can control, and some we cannot. One of the uncontrollable factors is the presence of gene mutations. One type of gene that plays a role in normal cell growth -- anoncogene-- can be altered to contribute to the uncontrolled gro...
Early detection remains an important opportunity to improve overall survival from pancreatic cancer but is challenging in the absence of an early disease biomarker. Therefore, screening patients at increased risk for pancreatic cancer is currently the favored strategy. This approach involves careful assessm...
Using CT scans to screen for lung cancer is important because these scans can reveal lung cancers long before they cause symptoms or show up on a chest X-ray. A CT scan can spot cancers as small as a grain of rice. The importance of finding cancer early is significant because survival a...
"CRC screening has been shown to be one of the most effective prevention tools for a very common cancer that we know of," said Reid M. Ness, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, and Chair of the NCCN Guidelines Panel for Colorectal Cancer Screening. ...
Due to conventional guidelines, most primary care doctors simply test one’s TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) and T4 levels (the amount of the T4 thyroid hormone circulating in your blood), to screen for hypothyroidism. However, these tests are not always interpreted correctly, don’t differentia...
Breast Cancer: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment & Prognosis from Chapter 18 / Lesson 16 4.9K Breast cancer can be diagnosed early using several methods. Learn how to screen and diagnose breast cancer, the treatment options, and the important prognostic indicators. Related...
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The purpose of screening for prostate cancer is to decrease the disease-specific mortality. However not every screen-detected prostate cancer is a threat t... R Raaijmakers,SHD Vries,BG Blijenberg,... - 《European Urology》 被引量: 69发表: 2007年 ...
Different tumor markers are related to these cancers! 1. Alpha fetoprotein (AFP): screen for primary liver cancer and take blood for examination. 2. Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA): a broad-spectrum tumor marker, especially the detection of lung cancer and digestive tract cancer. ...