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Computer-Aided Cytogenetic
Method of Cancer Diagnosis
Authors: Roman I. Andrushkiw
(New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ), N. V. Boroday
(R.E.Kavetsky Inst. of Experimental Pathology,
Oncology and Radiology, N.A.S.U, Kyiv, Ukraine), D. A. Klyushin
and Y. I. Petunin (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko Univ.)
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Book Description:
This book presents a precise description of a new method and technology for
early diagnosis of breast cancer and cancer of the thyroid gland. The method
employs mathematical/statistical techniques of pattern recognition and state
of the art results in oncomorphology and cytometry to detect and identify malignancy-associated
DNA changes in patient's buccal epithelium, which
provide early signs of the disease before other symptoms, such as the
formation of a tumor, become evident. The method is noninvasive and requiring
a scrape of buccal epithelium from the patient's
oral cavity for analysis. The results of recent clinical trials show that the
sensitivity and specificity of the method compares favorably with other
diagnostic methods currently in use.
Conventional methods, such as mammography and ultrasound, are important tools
in screening patients for cancer. However, their reliability is limited (see,
for example, "Mammogram Team Learns from its Errors", New York
Times, page 1, June 28, 2002). Thus the problem of improving the reliability
of noninvasive methods for early diagnosis of cancer has been the subject of
intense research in recent years. The present book is the first of its kind
on the topic of computer-aided cytogenetic method
of cancer diagnosis and presents a new approach to this problem.
The book is divided into four chapters and consists of approximately 300
pages and 40 figures. It is intended for graduate students, researchers and
professionals in the field of oncology, medical diagnostics and cancer
research.
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To see outline of the book, click https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4078.
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Taras Golota, a member of our Section, was part of
the team of researchers at the Subaru observatory in Hawaii who developed a new
adaptive optics system to correct for the effect of turbulence in
real-time by a factor of ten, giving astronomers a clearer view of the
universe. Optics and laser guide star technology are important to astronomers
because a ground-based telescope's ability to resolve spatial detail is limited
by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere. For more details, see: www.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2006/11/20/index_2.html

standing
l-r:
Tania Keis, Dr. Andrij V.
R. Szul, Prof. Daria Dykyj, Taras
Golota
seated l-r:
Dr. Sviatoslaw Trofimenko,
Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych,
Prof. Roman Andrushkiw, Prof. Vasyl
Markus, Svitlana Andrushkiw
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Vice-President &
Learned Secretary of Shevchenko Scientific Society, Dr. Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, and
his "scorpionate" ligands
recently were guests of honor at a symposium to celebrate 35 years of chemistry
accomplished with the pyrazolylborate and related tripodal ligands.
Trofimenko in Science & Technology
Story: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8117/8117ligands.html
The book: http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/chemistry/p148.html

SCORPIONATE KING
Co-organizers Daniel L. Reger (left of University
of South Carolina) and Gerard Parkin (of Columbia
University) flank Trofimenko as they present him with a copy of his book on pyrazolylborate ligands signed by
each symposium speaker.