Interventional Bronchoscopy from Bench to Bedside: New Techniques for Early Lung Cancer Detection - 05/08/11
, Septimiu D. Murgu, MD a, b
Corresponding author. UCI Medical Center, 101 The City Drive South, Building 53, Room 119, Route 81 Orange, CA 92868.Resumen |
Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death in the world, and it accounts for more deaths than breast, colon, and prostate cancer combined in the United States. From a historical perspective, the premise behind early lung cancer detection strategy is that early detection of lung cancer is justified if early treatment improves the outcome. New optical technologies such as those presented in this article allow dynamic study of these processes at the cellular level, and it is hoped that opportunities for targeted therapy will be provided in the future. Investigators are on the verge of discovering a multidimensional bronchoscopic platform that can be used to narrow in on airway structures, explore vascular flow and angiogenesis, and discover new features of bronchogenic carcinogenesis.
El texto completo de este artículo está disponible en PDF.Keywords : Autofluorescence bronchoscopy, High-magnification bronchoscopy, Narrowband imaging, Multimodality fluorescein imaging, Endobronchial ultrasonography, Optical coherence tomography, Confocal endoscopy
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| Financial disclosures: The authors have no financial disclosures and no conflicts of interest related to the content of this article. |
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| Parts of this article were presented by Dr Colt during the Pasquale Ciaglia Memorial Lecture at CHEST 2008. |
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