Characteristics of abdomen and pelvis CT scan's evaluation of patients with malignancies
PhD student, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Moldova, 165 Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt Street, MD-2004, Chișinau, Republic of Moldova.
Review Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020, 13(01), 031-044.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2020.13.1.0258
Publication history:
Received on 07 August 2020; revised on 08 October 2020; accepted on 12 October 2020
Abstract:
According to the American Cancer Center, cancer causes about 1 in 6 deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria taken together, it is the second leading cause of death, after cardiovascular disease. Imaging examinations to examine the abdomen and pelvis are the methods of choice in detecting neoplastic formations with the provision of information that is essential for the subsequent management of these patients.
From the PubMed databases and the Google Scholar search engine, the articles published during 2010-2020 were selected, according to the keywords: oncology statistics, oncology imaging, computed tomography, abdominal neoplasms, pelvic neoplasms, oncology staging, post-processing programs in computed tomography, follow-up of cancer patients, diagnostic algorithms. Information on international scientific studies on oncological pathology statistics has been selected and processed globally, according to data from the American Cancer Center and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, innovative methods for assessing the staging of patients with abdominal and pelvic neoplasms, and modern post processing in the case of examination by computed tomography of abdominal and pelvic neoplasms patients.
After processing the information in the Google Scholar and PubMed database, according to the search criteria, 346 articles on the proposed topic were found. The final bibliography contains 176 relevant sources, of which 77 were considered representative for the elaboration of this synthesis article.
We must aim to justify, optimize and customize each imaging procedure for patients with neoplasms, as they are frequently exposed to imaging examinations.
Keywords:
Oncology statistics; Computed tomography; Abdominal neoplasms; Pelvic neoplasms; Staging in oncology; Post-processing programs.
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