Sökning: "Active surveillance"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 77 avhandlingar innehållade orden Active surveillance.
1. On Cooperative Surveillance, Online Trajectory Planning and Observer Based Control
Sammanfattning : The main body of this thesis consists of six appended papers. In the first two, different cooperative surveillance problems are considered. The second two consider different aspects of the trajectory planning problem, while the last two deal with observer design for mobile robotic and Euler-Lagrange systems respectively. LÄS MER
2. Surveillance and follow-up of early prostate cancer
Sammanfattning : Active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer was introduced to address overtreatment resulting from prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. Despite advancements such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and targeted biopsies, PSA remains crucial in prostate cancer diagnostics, leading to ongoing challenges of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. LÄS MER
3. Medierad övervakning : En studie av övervakningens betydelser i svensk dagspress
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis explores the use of surveillance images and discourses of surveillance in the Swedish press. Questions concerning surveillance appear frequently in the news today. LÄS MER
4. Quality of life aspects of being diagnosed and living with prostate cancer
Sammanfattning : Prostate cancer is largely a heterogenous disease, ranging from almost harmless to highly aggressive. Most men are diagnosed with favorable-risk disease with a long life expectancy even without treatment. The risk of overdiagnosing and overtreating these men is substantial, with reduced quality of life as a result. LÄS MER
5. Prostate Cancer Screening - Aspects of Overdiagnosis
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to explore aspects of overdiagnosis, i.e. the diagnosis of a tumor that in the absence of screening would never have been diagnosed, in prostate cancer (PC) screening. LÄS MER