Conveners
Combined prostate/OB/GYN and endoscopic session
- Stan Majewski (West Virginia University)
- Markus Schwaiger
Combined prostate/OB/GYN and endoscopic session
- Stan Majewski (West Virginia University)
- Markus Schwaiger
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Ivo Boskowski (Catholic University of Rome, Digestive Endoscopy Unit)04/09/2014, 15:30In the past three decades gastrointestinal endoscopy has dramatically evolved. This evolution passed from rigid endoscopes trough fiber optic endoscopes to high definition video endoscopes that are used today. Physics and medicine has always been in symbiosis, especially in the field of development of devices and accessories. Gastrointestinal endoscopy endoscopy today is either diagnostic and...Go to contribution page
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R. Laugier (University of Nice)04/09/2014, 15:55Pancreas is a deep organ in the abdominal cavity and endoscopy has followed immense improvements thanks to technology advances. Pancreatic cancer frightens everyone in view of its growing incidence and hopeless prognosis still in 2014. It is not conceivable to imagine a program of pancreatic cancer screening in the general population due to the lack of early symptoms. By contrast, some...Go to contribution page
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César David Vera Donoso (La Fe Universitary Hospital)04/09/2014, 16:20
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Alessia Di Legge (University Cattolica Rome)04/09/2014, 16:45Improvement in treatment for gynecological carcinoma makes it possible to offer optimal and personalized treatment. Pretreatment staging is crucial to plan the best treatment strategy. Gynecological cancer staging is based on clinical examination and histological findings. However, many diagnostic methods are entered into clinical practice. Between the more sophisticated imaging techniques,...Go to contribution page
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Maurizio Conti (Siemens)04/09/2014, 17:40Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer among men. Early diagnosis, correct staging, accurate detection of metastasis, and monitoring of the therapy are the key tasks that could greatly benefit from medical imaging. After a review of the main developments in the field of PET tracers for prostate cancer, the impact of improved PET instrumentation with good spatial resolution...Go to contribution page
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Jesus Silva-Rodriguez (Health Research Institute)04/09/2014, 18:0518-fluorine-choline (18F-Choline) is a relatively new radiopharmaceutical for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), proposed as an alternative for 11-carbon-choline (11C-Choline), and indicated for staging, restaging and therapy monitoring in prostate cancer. In clinical routine, 18F-Choline images are eventually evaluated using a quantitative parameter known as Standardized Uptake Value (SUV)....Go to contribution page
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Dr Stan Majewski04/09/2014, 18:30The most certain diagnosis of prostate cancer is based on histopathology analysis of biopsy samples. Biopsy decision is based on highly non-specific elevated PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) factor in blood. Currently biopsy is realized with use of TRUS. Samples are taken by ~2mm biopsy needle. TRUS is not sensitive for small cancer lesions, therefore it is generally used for biopsy needle...Go to contribution page