Surface-Vein Scans Track Cancer Spread

Patricia Daukantas

A team from Purdue University and the Mayo Clinic is developing technology to scan cancer patients for tumor cells circulating in their bloodstream.

 

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Philip Low, Purdue’s Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, discusses a new cancer detection method with graduate student Wei He (seated).

“Did you get all the cancer out?” Physicians face that question every time they operate to remove a tumor. New research involving a laser-imaging technique could help answer it.

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