Items Tagged ‘Michael Wallace’
October 7, 2019 · Leave a Comment
An Artificial Intelligence Tool to Improve Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes
By Advancing the Science contributor 
Article by Barbara Toman Only 9% of people with pancreatic cancer live for five years after diagnosis. “That is an abysmally low number, probably the worst in human cancers,” says Michael Wallace, M.D., a digestive disease specialist at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida. “We want to get that rate substantially higher.” Artificial intelligence is […]
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Tags: artificial intelligence, cancer, cancer prevention, cancer screening, Candice Bolan, Center for Individualized Medicine, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, gastroenterology, genetic counseling, genetic testing, imaging, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
February 11, 2019 · Leave a Comment
By Kate Ledger
Gastroenterologists agree that removing a colorectal polyp is an important step in preventing colon cancer, but one challenge has been excising polyps that are large, particularly those that are flat and more than an inch in diameter. A recently introduced minimally-invasive approach, called endoscopic mucosal resection, or EMR, facilitates the removal of large polyps without […]
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Tags: cancer prevention, colon cancer, colon polyp, gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Michael Wallace, minimally invasive surgery