Roughly 1 out of 8 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer (BCa). Screening mammograms are able to detect very early lesions before symptoms, such as a palpable lump, occur. Early detection facilitates a diagnosis during a period when the probability of treatment success is highest. Standard 2D mammograms are the most used method keep reading

The title of a paper published in the Journal of Physiology got my attention: “Acute High Intensity Interval Exercise Reduces Colon Cancer Cell Growth”. Questions immediately popped into my mind... keep reading

PLEASE NOTE: Recruitment for this study has closed and the study has concluded.   In keeping with our mission to serve men with prostate cancer, the Sperling Prostate Center (Delray Beach, FL) is assisting in a clinical research study to help develop a next-generation blood test to detect prostate cancer. This study is sponsored by keep reading

“Slow and steady wins the race.” – From “The Hare and the Tortoise” by Aesop We often long for quick results, especially when it comes to health. Countless ads for supplements and exercise aids that promise “Fast Results!” draw hordes of consumers. Sadly, many buyers have found, to their great disappointment, that immediate gratification is keep reading

Most of the things we worry about rarely come to pass as we imagine. However, when the Director of the National Cancer Institute, Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, says he’s worried about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer patients, there are good grounds for his fears. Dr. Sharpless contributed an editorial, “COVID-19 and Cancer” keep reading

Did you have a beginner’s science kit as a kid? Did it have a microscope? Even if you weren’t science-minded, it was a thrill to put a drop of pond water on a slide and exam it under magnification. What a discovery to see how many things invisible to the naked eye were squirming rapidly keep reading

“Physicians are valued for being brilliant diagnosticians and they now have more information and tools and technology at their disposal than ever before; yet patients don’t feel cared for, and doctors don’t feel like they can care for patients enough.”[i] Abraham Verghese, MD is hardly a household name, but among many doctors he is something keep reading

“…when clinical data are used to provide care, the primary purpose for acquiring the data is fulfilled. At that point, clinical data should be treated as a form of public good, to be used for the benefit of future patients.” From Mar. 2029 Radiological Society of North America’s Special Report[i] How much does your privacy keep reading

The most obvious risk is that AI systems will sometimes be wrong, and that patient injury or other health-care problems may result.[i] There are many levels in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already serving the field of medicine, but two of them involve direct impact on patients: enhance patient information available to doctors (e.g. diagnosis, keep reading

From deep learning algorithms that can read CT scans faster than humans to natural language processing (NLP) that can comb through unstructured data in electronic health records (EHRs), the applications for AI in healthcare seem endless.[i] Endless application implies endless possibilities for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medicine and healthcare. Sounds terrific! So, what’s the downside? keep reading