Lit-up tumors give surgeons new precision in cancer surgery
Light-guided cancer surgery has been in development for some time with varying degrees of success, from light therapy to glow-in-the-dark tumors and the development of compounds that can illuminate tumors. Now, scientists are confident they’ve developed a new technique of molecular imaging that sees tumors lit by short-wave infrared light in such detail that surgeons can differentiate between the cancerous tumor and healthy tissue.Researchers at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS)…