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Cancer: a global concern that demands new detection technologies

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: There are over 100 cancer-related diseases and it is becoming clear that the standard-of-care for managing cancer diseases, which involves physical examinations and assessment of a patient's symptoms and/or various imaging modalities, is not keeping pace with the expanding nature of these diseases. For example, while the death rate (per 100,000 individuals) has decreased by 39% over the time span from 1991 to 2015 for cardiovascular diseases, over this same time period, the death rate for the cancer diseases has only seen a 21% drop. Worldwide, in 2014 there were >13 million new cancer cases and 70% of all cancer deaths occurred in low to middle income countries; cancer is not restricted to developed countries only. In the US alone, there were 580,350 cancer deaths and 1.66 million new cases. The (US) National Cancer Institute estimates that cancer care costs were $125 billion in 2010 and are project to be $200B by 2020! It is abundantly clear that the future will require new paradigms for managing all cancer-related diseases, such as molecular diagnostics/prognostics

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/vqdg-y411

Author: Soper, Steven A

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering