Oncology pathology and diagnostics news
Computers trounce pathologists in predicting lung cancer type and severity
Computers can be trained to be more accurate than pathologists in assessing slides of lung…
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Molecule has potential to stop cancer at the source
A molecule has been developed with the potential to detect cancer-causing cells before they have…
Early detection of leukaemia patients’ resistance to therapy
David Ellis, University of Adelaide Adelaide researchers have made a world-first breakthrough in the early…
Health executive sacked after prostate cancer SA Pathology blunder gives patients wrong diagnosis
Wendy Glamocak, ABC. About 100 patients in South Australia were given false positive results for…
Radiologists do not face elevated risk of radiation-related mortality
Radiologists who graduated from medical school after 1940 do not face an increased risk of…
Researchers develop simple method to characterise immune cells in tumours
Despite recent achievements in the development of cancer immunotherapies, only a small group of patients…
Is it cancer? Diagnosing yourself online is about to get easier
By Kevin McCarthy, The Guardian US. People often search for their symptoms, but the right diagnosis…
PET/MRI: A one-stop imaging test to detect prostate cancer?
A University of Michigan study published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports that the addition of…
GPs unlikely to pick up certain cancers right away because it’s not the most likely diagnosis
By Jon Emery, University of Melbourne. Diagnosing cancer early is important for improving the chances of…
A ‘key’ to metastasis formation
Researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan have demonstrated that a molecule, called biglycan, plays an…