FOR KIDS: Sniffing for cancer
New surgical tool offers surgeons speedier diagnosis of tissues that are cancerous
Web edition: August 2, 2013
New surgical tool offers surgeons speedier diagnosis of tissues that are cancerous
By Stephen Ornes
Web edition: August 2, 2013
Surgeon's helper
New iKnife takes just seconds to see if tissue is normal. Liver tissue at left (diagonal angle) has cancer; tissue at right is healthy.
Credit: Science Translational Medicine/AAAS
Meet the iKnife: It?s a new tool that may help surgeons shorten the operating time for cancer patients. Within three seconds, it can tell whether cut tissue is healthy or cancerous, a new study finds. The same identification takes up to 30 minutes when done by a person, as it is now.Visit the new Science News for Kids website and read the full story: Sniffing for cancer
Citations
C. Gelling. ?Surgical tool smokes out cancer in seconds.? Science News. July 18, 2013.
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352110/title/FOR_KIDS_Sniffing_for_cancer
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