Patient setup variations for treatment planning for breast cancer

Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Treatment

Breast cancer, as a heterogeneous disease, includes a wide range of pathological and clinical behaviors. Current treatment protocols, including radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and hormone replacement therapy, are mainly associated with poor response and high rate of recurrence. Therefore, more efforts are needed to develop alternative therapies for this type of cancer. Immunotherapy, as a novel str...

Surface Imaging for Patient Setup and Monitoring for Breast Radiotherapy

Intelligent Interface for Adjuvant Treatment Planning in Breast Cancer

The primary course of therapy for breast cancer patients, following surgery, depends on the expected prognosis together with the key clinical indicators. An interface for use by clinical oncologists is proposed, which addresses three fundamental questions, namely; evidence that the currently used Nottingham Prognostic Index can be enhanced by additional clinical features, prognostic inference f...

Assessment of Computer Regulation Thermography (CRT) as a Complemetrary Diagnostic tool for Breast Cancer Patient

Background: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women demanding accurate diagnosis to take remedial measures to treat.Objective: Comparing the diagnostic capability of the computer regulation thermography (CRT), as a novel and safe diagnostic procedure, with common methods including sonography, mammography and clinical examinations for diagnosing breast cancer in suspicious...

ADABOOST ENSEMBLE ALGORITHMS FOR BREAST CANCER CLASSIFICATION

With an advance in technologies, different tumor features have been collected for Breast Cancer (BC) diagnosis, processing of dealing with large data set suffers some challenges which include high storage capacity and time require for accessing and processing. The objective of this paper is to classify BC based on the extracted tumor features. To extract useful information and diagnose the tumo...