Su1288 SIZE MATTERS: TUMOR SIZE IMPACTS ENDOSONOGRAPHIC RECTAL CANCER STAGING ACCURACY

Endosonographic Staging of Esophageal Cancer.

BACKGROUND: Endosonography (ES) is an important tool for staging malignant esophageal cancer with the TNM staging classification. ES is a safe procedure and an accurate method of staging tumor invasion (T) and lymph node involvement (N). METHODS: The author reviewed the literature on the comparative roles of computed tomography and ES as complementary staging procedures. RESULTS: Advantages of ...

Complete endosonographic staging of lung cancer.

With great interest, I read the article by Kang and colleagues in which they performed a randomised comparison between EBUS-centred versus EUS-centred mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer. As expected, no difference in diagnostic values between the two groups was found. A minimal diagnostic gain of the addition of EUS to EBUS was reported in contrast to a significant diagnostic benefit of t...

Size matters

Charles Darwin when developing his theory of evolution. And a new study of work on the islands' marine iguanas may help throw some more light on the evolution of body size within these populations. Body size is one of the most important traits of organisms and allows predictions of an individual's morphology, physiology, behaviour and life history. However, explaining the evolution of such comp...

Diagnostic Accuracy of Positron Emission Mammography with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in Breast Cancer Tumor of Less than 20 mm in Size

Objective(s): To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of positron emission mammography (PEM) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for small breast tumors of less than 20 mm in size.Methods: The study was conducted on a total of 100 subjects (i.e., 50 patients with pathologically proven breast cancer and 50 normal cases of medical screening). The total number of tumors wa...

Size matters: nanoparticles in cancer therapy