Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Tumor Research & The Potential Benefits Of MR Imaging

By Robert Sutter


Tumor research may be assisted in a number of ways and I think that most would be able to agree. This is one of those procedures in which so much focus has been given and the best methods are what is considered the name of the game. You have to be able to assess which therapies are best but this cannot be done without the proper work being seen. This is why MR imaging has seemingly produced results that can ultimately come into play in the future.

According to ScienceBlog.com, a new method in analyzing data may come into play for the sake of tumor research. It will be able to determine whether or not these growths are responding to a new anti-angiogenesis therapy, which can potentially lead into treatments becoming created later on down the road. The Massachusetts General Hospital talked about how vessel architectural imaging would be able to identify changes within blood vessels. It's a strong story more than deserving of the attention of organizations like Voices against Brain Cancer.

The article also talked about how past methods of analysis typically needed surgery. For example, biopsy is considered to be a rather normal procedure but the problem is that actual surgery is required, meaning that there's a chance that patients may become harmed as a result. PET scanning is also seen as a possibility but the limited results in addition to high radiation levels do not make it ideal. As you can see, the list is very short as far as clear methods are concerned.

MR imaging has brought about a number of details and it seems like the many factors of tumors have been the cause of this. Keep in mind that the blood vessels are going to be varied, whether you're talking about radius, size, or what have you. Imaging is able to pick up on so much information, as you can probably imagine. Seeing as how it is differentiates small arteries from veins, for example, the potential is a point that, in my mind, goes without saying.

Tumor research has developed so much over the course of time and this story is just another example of this. I believe that there's much that can be found thanks to MR imaging that may not have been picked up on through past methods. Surgery shouldn't be required to find out this type of information and the fact that tumors are complex by nature means that many details have to be acquired. MR imaging is one of the ways to do so and it houses great potential.




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