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Overview

Cancer is a devastating disease that still faces many challenges, including late diagnosis poor efficacy of conventional anticancer therapies and disease heterogeneity Unfortunately, for some common imaging techniques currently used for cancer detection sensitivity often depends on tumor size, and the techniques are expensive and/or inappropriate for large-scale screening because they are time-inefficient However, based on the overall sensitivity and specificity of low-dose computed tomography (CT) for lung cancer there is still a need to assess the risks associated with radiation exposure and the relatively high false-positive rate of 80%. up to 100% Magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography are used to diagnose and determine the stage of cancer. However, their sensitivity and specificity, for example in lung cancer, remain unsatisfactory. Cancer is a devastating disease that still faces many challenges, including the low effectiveness of common cancer treatments.