The first fluorescence-guided surgery on an ovarian cancer patient was performed using a cancer cell ?homing device? and imaging agent.
The surgery was one of 10 performed as part of the first phase of a clinical trial to evaluate a new technology to aid surgeons in the removal of malignant tissue from ovarian cancer patients. The method illuminates cancer cells to help surgeons identify and remove smaller tumors that could otherwise be missed.
Philip Low, a professor of chemistry at Purdue University, who invented the technology, says surgeons were able to see clusters of cancer cells as small as one-tenth of a millimeter, as opposed to the earlier average minimal cluster size of 3 millimeters in diameter based on current methods of visual and tactile detection.
Full story at Futurity.
Photo credit: Jeff Gage, University of Florida
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