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How AI Is Changing Medical Imaging to Improve Patient Care
That doctors can peer into the human body without making a single incision once seemed like a miraculous concept. But medical imaging in radiology has come a long way, and the latest artificial intelligence (AI)-driven techniques are going much further: exploiting the massive computing abilities of AI and machine learning to mine body scans for differences that even the human eye can miss. Imaging in medicine now involves sophisticated ways of analyzing every data point to distinguish disease from health and signal from noise. If the first few decades of radiology were about refining the resolution of the pictures taken of...
Source: TIME: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Innovation sponsorshipblock Source Type: news

Bringing WISDOM to Breast Cancer Care
Dr. Laura Esserman answers the door of her bright yellow Victorian home in San Francisco’s Ashbury neighborhood with a phone at her ear. She’s wrapping up one of several meetings that day with her research team at University of California, San Francisco, where she heads the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She motions me in and reseats herself at a makeshift home office desk in her living room, sandwiched between a grand piano and set of enormous windows overlooking her front yard’s flower garden. It’s her remote base of operations when she’s not seeing patients or operating at the hospita...
Source: TIME: Health - October 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Effective chemotherapy and targeted therapy supplemented with stereotactic radiotherapy of a patient with metastatic colon cancer following renal transplantation: a case report
ConclusionsSince information is scarce regarding oncological treatment of patients following organ transplantation, data about their oncological treatment is essential. To our knowledge, this is the first case report to describe the successful chemotherapy and targeted therapy supplemented with stereotactic radiotherapy of a posttransplant patient with metastatic colorectal cancer.
Source: Journal of Medical Case Reports - March 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

Prevalence of leukoencephalopathy and its potential cognitive sequelae in cancer patients.
In conclusion, leukoencephalopathy is well-documented for ALL patients (with a focus on methotrexate), but there is a lack of knowledge for other intravenous chemotherapeutics, other oncological populations, wider age ranges and possible risk factors (e.g. history of CNS event). Furthermore, the long-term neuropsychological impact and potential risk for neurodegenerative processes due to leukoencephalopathy remains inconclusive. Hence, large international databanks, epidemiological and prospective case-control studies are necessary to stratify risk groups for CNS-related side effects. PMID: 32799637 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Chemotherapy - August 19, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: J Chemother Source Type: research

Sex Differences in Sex Hormone Profiles and Prediction of Consciousness Recovery After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Conclusion: These findings indicate that TBI differentially affects the levels of sex-steroid hormones in men and women patients. Plasma levels of testosterone could be a good candidate blood marker to predict recovery from unconsciousness after sTBI for male patients. Introduction Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability worldwide and is increasing in incidence (1). Patients with acute severe TBI (sTBI) often develop severe disorders of consciousness, i.e., coma, minimally conscious state or vegetative state. Although many patients may regain consciousness during the 1-month post-TBI p...
Source: Frontiers in Endocrinology - April 25, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Neuroimaging and Neurolaw: Drawing the Future of Aging
Vincenzo Tigano1, Giuseppe Lucio Cascini2, Cristina Sanchez-Castañeda3, Patrice Péran4 and Umberto Sabatini5* 1Department of Juridical, Historical, Economic and Social Sciences, University of Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy 2Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy 3Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 4ToNIC, Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France 5Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, ...
Source: Frontiers in Endocrinology - April 7, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Change in pulmonary function and cardiorespiratory fitness following chemotherapy in testicular cancer patients - a pilot study
Conclusions: There was a substantial reduction in VO2max after BEP corresponding to three decades of physiological aging. This reduction may reflect a decrease in the patients’ cardiac function and oxygen carrying capacity, and not to reduced DLco.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 6, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Edvardsen, E., Larsen, K.-O., Fossa, S. D., Ikdahl, T., Loge, J. H., Thorsen, L. Tags: Clinical Respiratory Physiology, Exercise and Functional Imaging Source Type: research

Stroke-like migraine attacks in long term survivors of high grade glioma. (P1.174)
Conclusions:Stroke-like migraine attacks are difficult to treat and the pathophysiology is unknown. With more sophisticated imaging techniques, a better understanding of this phenomenon will aid in the treatment and prophylaxis of the syndrome with a goal of improving quality of life for this small but slowly growing population.Disclosure: Dr. New has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mirza has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 17, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: New, P., Mirza, H. Tags: Neuro-oncology: Gliomas I Source Type: research

Brain findings on FDG PET-MRI body sequences that include the head
Conclusions FDG PET-MRI imaging is a rapidly evolving modality that is most commonly employed for cancer evaluation. The standardized base of skull to mid thigh imaging may miss many important pathologies that are discovered even with MRI body sequences. We propose that PET-MRI body sequences that include the head may show added value in the management of patients.
Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - May 23, 2016 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Franceschi, A., Matthews, R., Bangiyev, L., Relan, N., Chaudhry, A., Franceschi, D. Tags: Outcomes/Comparative Effectiveness Research & amp; Radiation Safety Source Type: research

Prevalence of Cerebral Small-Vessel Disease in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors Exposed to Both Adjuvant Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy Breast Cancer
Conclusion More CMBs were found in the aRCeBCS group than in the population-based controls. These vascular lesions potentially mark cerebrovascular frailty that could partially explain the well-documented association between chemotherapy and cognitive dysfunction. No support was found for a radiotherapy-related origin of CMBs.
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology - February 18, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Koppelmans, Vernooij, Boogerd, Seynaeve, Ikram, Breteler, Schagen Tags: Radiation, Chemotherapy Breast Cancer Source Type: research

Prevalence of Cerebral Small-Vessel Disease in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors Exposed to Both Adjuvant Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy.
CONCLUSION: More CMBs were found in the aRCeBCS group than in the population-based controls. These vascular lesions potentially mark cerebrovascular frailty that could partially explain the well-documented association between chemotherapy and cognitive dysfunction. No support was found for a radiotherapy-related origin of CMBs. PMID: 25559803 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Genitourinary Cancer - January 5, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Koppelmans V, Vernooij MW, Boogerd W, Seynaeve C, Ikram MA, Breteler MM, Schagen SB Tags: J Clin Oncol Source Type: research

Epilepsy and Cancer: Ancient Problem in a Top Mortality Illness (P3.313)
CONCLUSIONS: Seizures in patients with cancer is a frequent comorbid condition with a high mortality rate, further studies are required to study the efficacy and security of AED and other forms of treatment.Study Supported by: NoneDisclosure: Dr. Cacho Diaz has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 9, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Cacho Diaz, B. Tags: Neurologic Complications of Cancer Source Type: research