Levman Jacob, Broza Yoav Y
Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada.
Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 19;15(1):9436. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-89820-5.
Cancer is among the most common causes of mortality worldwide. Screening for cancer involves surveillance of populations towards identification of cancer that was unknown to the patient. Therapeutic treatments for cancer generally are more effective when applied earlier on in the condition’s development, as such, screening for cancer has the potential to improve the standard for patient care and improving mortality and morbidity associated with the disease. Cancer screening has increasingly become dependent on advanced technologies to assist in the identification and characterization of tumours. This article Collection showcases current research towards the development of new methods for cancer screening, including the development of new advanced technologies in this domain such as novel methods incorporating liquid biopsies, tailed primer isothermal amplification assays, and infrared spectroscopy. As is common in modern research, approaches make use of computational techniques as a critical component in cancer screening, and research is highlighted on the use of artificial intelligence, which is now a common technological innovation contributing to the overall cancer screening process in research studies. Future directions for cancer screening are discussed.
癌症是全球最常见的死因之一。癌症筛查是指对人群进行监测，以发现患者未知的癌症。癌症的治疗通常在病情发展早期应用时更有效，因此，癌症筛查有可能提高患者护理标准，并降低与该疾病相关的死亡率和发病率。癌症筛查越来越依赖先进技术来辅助肿瘤的识别和特征描述。本文集展示了当前关于开发癌症筛查新方法的研究，包括该领域新先进技术的开发，如结合液体活检、尾引物等温扩增分析和红外光谱的新方法。正如现代研究中常见的那样，方法将计算技术作为癌症筛查的关键组成部分，并且重点介绍了人工智能的应用研究，人工智能现在是一项常见的技术创新，有助于整体癌症筛查研究过程。本文还讨论了癌症筛查的未来方向。
