New tool to help surgeons remove more cancer tissue during brain surgery

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

Scientists are reporting development and successful initial testing of a new tool that tells whether brain tissue is normal or cancerous while an operation is underway, so that surgeons can remove more of the tumor without removing healthy tissue, improving patients' survival. The report appears in Analytical Chemistry.

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