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Screening for early detection.

Marilyn Stromborg
- 01 Sep 1981 - 
- Vol. 81, Iss: 9, pp 1652-1657
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This article is published in American Journal of Nursing.The article was published on 1981-09-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mammography & Palpation.

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Determination of the distribution of light, optical properties, drug concentration, and tissue oxygenation in-vivo in human prostate during motexafin lutetium-mediated photodynamic therapy.

Timothy C. Zhu, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2005 - 
TL;DR: Significant inter- and intra-prostatic variations in the tissue optical properties and MLu drug distribution are shown, suggesting that a real-time dosimetry measurement and feedback system for monitoring these values during treatment should be considered in future PDT studies.
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Prostate PDT dosimetry

Timothy C. Zhu, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2006 - 
TL;DR: A review of the current state of dosimetry in prostate photodynamic therapy (PDT) and techniques have been developed to characterize tissue optical properties and light fluence rates in vivo using interstitial measurements during prostate PDT.
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Timing medical examinations via intensity functions

Giovanni Parmigiani
- 01 Dec 1997 - 
TL;DR: A decision theoretic method for timing medical examinations motivated by screening asymptomatic individuals for hidden disease or risk-increasing conditions and modelled as a space of functions, termed screening intensity functions is studied.
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An Effective Method for Online Disease Risk Monitoring

Lu You, +1 more
- 02 Apr 2020 - 
TL;DR: A novel and effective new method for DEDAP, where a patient’s risk to the disease is first quantified at each time point, and then the longitudinal pattern of the risk is monitored sequentially over time, works well in practice.
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Prevention of cardiovascular disease

Jay N. Cohn
- 01 Jul 2015 - 
TL;DR: A strategy for screening and evaluation of the population that should accomplishmeaningful prevention of cardiovascular disease to age 90 or 100 free of morbid events is presented with potential benefits on both cost and cardiovascular health.