Biopsy

AUSTIN, Texas — In this video, Kerry Cooper, MD, discusses the potential Renal Autologous Cell Therapy by ProKidney may have to preserve kidney function and slow the progression of kidney disease.

A preoperative biopsy procedure did not raise the risk for tumor spread through airspaces among patients with resected stage I non-small cell lung cancer, according to a study published in CHEST.

Compared with visual assessment, a deep learning model improved CT imaging prediction of histopathologic usual interstitial pneumonitis in patients with interstitial lung disease, according to study results published in CHEST.

Compared with systematic biopsy, MRI-directed targeted biopsy reduces the risk of overdiagnosis of prostate cancer for men with elevated prostate-specific antigen levels, according to researchers.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a Healio video exclusive, Amrit Kamboj, MD, a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic Rochester, reported a predictive model accurately identified patients’ likelihood of eosinophilic esophagitis.

BOSTON — Excisional biopsies of soft tissue sarcoma of the hand are associated with more positive margins and a longer time to patients’ first intervention vs. incisional/needle biopsies, results of a study showed.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center have developed an automated liquid biopsy test that can detect cancer DNA in the blood of patients with metastatic breast cancer within 5 hours.

In this video, Thomas Waddington, MD, assistant clinical professor in the department of medicine, division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at City of Hope National Medical Center, highlights diagnostic tools used determine the stage of lung disease.

In this video, Thomas Waddington, MD, assistant clinical professor in the department of medicine, division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at City of Hope National Medical Center, discusses a pulmonologic perspective of lung cancer mutations, including EGFR mutations.

In this video, Thomas Waddington, MD, assistant clinical professor in the department of medicine, division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at City of Hope National Medical Center, highlights what future research into lung cancer should focus on from a pulmonology perspective.