'Intelligent' knife can tell tumour from healthy tissue - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science...
Jul 18, 2013
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"Known as the iKnife, the tool analyses the vapour given off as surgeons use electrical current to cut away tissue - and it reports in real time whether the tissue is cancerous or not. Tests in 91 human patients have shown the "tool's diagnoses were extremely accurate," and may be "reliable enough to begin widespread use in operating rooms," said the study in the US journal Science Translational Medicine. The iKnife uses mass spectrometry to examine the surgical smoke given off by evaporating tissue, alerting the surgeon in three seconds as to what it contains. Other current techniques - which include sending removed tissue to a pathology lab for analysis - are "costly...frequently inadequate," and take about 20-30 minutes, said the researchers from Hungary and Britain. "Remarkably, there are almost no technologies in routine clinical practice to assist the surgeon in improving the accuracy of cancer tissue clearance," said the study.For patients, this uncertainty can lead to repeat surgeries or worse, since returning to the operating table is not always an option for soft tissue tumors, the researchers said. The iKnife "can augment current tumor diagnostics, and it has the potential to influence 'on-table' decision-making and ultimately to improve oncological outcomes," said the study."
- Anne Bouey
I hope it has an audible Arnold Swarzeneger voiced "It's not a tumah" every time it probes a non-tumor.
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