A New Cancer-Detecting Pen That Can Pinpoint Your Tumours In Just 10 Seconds
Scientists have developed a new device that can help surgeons identify and pinpoint cancer cells within 10 seconds. The kicker. It’s as small as the average pen. Called MasSpec Pen, it’s a tool designed by a coalition of researchers
from Texas, and claims to be able to distinguish between cancerous and
healthy tissue with a 96 percent accuracy rate.
When a patient goes through surgery to remove a tumour, surgeons have to make sure they can cut out as much of the cancerous tissue as possible without endangering them, in order to increase the odds of beating the illness. At the same time, you don’t want to cut out more flesh than necessary either.
Currently, surgeons send tissue samples to a lab for analysis to pinpoint just what needs to go, but the process can take days. Alternatively, a less accurate time-saving solution involves freezing tissue and analyzing it during the operation, which can take 15 to 20 minutes. Instead, the MasSpec Pen can do the same job just as accurately in about 10 seconds.
It uses 10 microlitres of water to extract molecules from the tissue being tested, which is then sent through tubes to an instrument that analyzes it for a cancer fingerprint. While the prototype seems promising, scientists have yet to test the pen on many more tissue samples, as well as during actual surgeries in clinical trials before it’s approved. However, they’re still optimistic and expect the MasSpec Pen to be in widespread testing in hospitals by next year.
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When a patient goes through surgery to remove a tumour, surgeons have to make sure they can cut out as much of the cancerous tissue as possible without endangering them, in order to increase the odds of beating the illness. At the same time, you don’t want to cut out more flesh than necessary either.
Currently, surgeons send tissue samples to a lab for analysis to pinpoint just what needs to go, but the process can take days. Alternatively, a less accurate time-saving solution involves freezing tissue and analyzing it during the operation, which can take 15 to 20 minutes. Instead, the MasSpec Pen can do the same job just as accurately in about 10 seconds.
It uses 10 microlitres of water to extract molecules from the tissue being tested, which is then sent through tubes to an instrument that analyzes it for a cancer fingerprint. While the prototype seems promising, scientists have yet to test the pen on many more tissue samples, as well as during actual surgeries in clinical trials before it’s approved. However, they’re still optimistic and expect the MasSpec Pen to be in widespread testing in hospitals by next year.
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