New nano-devices for cancer diagnosis and therapeutic treatment
Cancerous cells and tumours may occur in any part of the body any time and hence proper diagnosis and treatment of such diseases would need immediate attention. Presently, conventional radiological diagnostic and therapeutic techniques are in use but more reliable and quick techniques are required t...
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| Published in | 2008 International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine p. 23 |
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| Format | Conference Proceeding |
| Language | English |
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IEEE
01.05.2008
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| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISBN | 9781424422548 142442254X |
| ISSN | 2168-2194 |
| DOI | 10.1109/ITAB.2008.4570510 |
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| Summary: | Cancerous cells and tumours may occur in any part of the body any time and hence proper diagnosis and treatment of such diseases would need immediate attention. Presently, conventional radiological diagnostic and therapeutic techniques are in use but more reliable and quick techniques are required to be developed to tackle the problem of cancer and tumours, in an effective manner. The current diagnosis techniques are usually in tissue level, and have limitation of low efficiency to detect specially invisible cancer cells. The treatment technique for cancer has been surgery, with or without radiotherapy, for years, while chemotherapy, is also used extensively these days, but this has its limitation of efficacy and the patients suffer from severe side effects. |
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| ISBN: | 9781424422548 142442254X |
| ISSN: | 2168-2194 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ITAB.2008.4570510 |