Search Tag: Thyroid
2016 15 Mar
An EU-funded project launched this year will develop a novel, point-of-care, low-cost device for the screening of thyroid nodules. Thyroid cancer is a major and growing health challenge with around 300,000 new cases diagnosed worldwide every year. Current methods do not provide sufficient support to surgeons in their decision on the appropriate...Read more
2016 22 Jan
Beckman Coulter Diagnostics is pleased to announce obtaining CE Mark and the release of its new Access TSH (3rd IS) assay for use with the company’s Access Family of Immunoassay Systems. This new assay is the next generation of the Access HYPERsensitive hTSH and Access Fast hTSH assays for the quantitative determination of human thyroid stimulating...Read more
2015 11 Sep
Increased detection of low-risk cancers through the use of high-tech imaging is driving up thyroid cancer rates, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in the journal Thyroid . Researchers found that the number of new cases of thyroid cancer nearly doubled over the past decade, with nearly 30 percent of these recent cases diagnosed when clinicians...Read more
2013 06 Sep
New imaging techniques are fuelling an epidemic in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancers that are unlikely to ever progress to cause symptoms or death, warn experts writing in the British Medical Journal. New technologies such as ultrasound, CT and MRI scanning can detect thyroid nodules as small as 2mm. Many of these small nodules are papillary...Read more
2013 08 Apr
The gold standard for diagnosing benign versus malignant thyroid nodules is fine needle aspiration biopsy. This study evaluated the a noninvasive ultrasound-based method, vibro-acoustography (VA), for thyroid imaging and determined the feasibility and challenges of VA in detecting nodules in the thyroid. In an in vitro study, experiments were conducted...Read more