NCRI 2019: Cervical pre-cancer can be detected in self-collected urine or vaginal samples
Researchers have developed a non-invasive test to detect cervical pre-cancer by analysing urine and vaginal…
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Using artificial intelligence to predict risk of thyroid cancer on ultrasound
Thyroid nodules are small lumps that form within the thyroid gland and are quite common…
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound predicts nodule transformation to hepatocellular carcinoma
An article published ahead-of-print in the January 2020 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) has…
3D-printed device finds ‘needle in a haystack’ cancer cells by removing the hay
Finding a handful of cancer cells hiding among billions of blood cells in a patient…
Combination of AI & radiologists more accurately identified breast cancer
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool–trained on roughly a million screening mammography images–identified breast cancer with…
Blood test could help to accelerate brain cancer diagnosis
A blood test which could help to accelerate the diagnosis of brain cancer has been…
ESMO 2019: Blood test can replace invasive biopsy for more patients with lung cancer
A growing number of patients with advanced lung cancer could soon be offered a blood…
For routine breast screening, you may not need a 3D mammogram
Meagan Brennan, University of Sydney Victorian Minister for Health Jenny Mikakos recently announced six new…
A liquid biopsy test can identify patients who may respond to immune checkpoint blockade
A new liquid biopsy test could detect microsatellite instability (MSI) and tumour mutational burden (TMB),…
Is prostate MRI, with or without MRI-targeted biopsy, better than systematic biopsy for detecting prostate cancer in men?
By Monique Biryiana In 2018, prostate cancer was the second most common cancer in men,…