Raman Technique Helps Surgeons Excise Brain Cancer
Credit: Sci. Transl. Med.
A surgeon uses the Raman probe to find cancer cells during brain surgery.
Chemical & Engineering News, Feburary 11, 2015
Neurosurgery: Handheld Raman probe can detect cancer cells that infiltrate healthy tissue
Neurosurgeons need all the help they can get to remove brain cancer tumors. If they leave cancer cells behind, the tumors can regrow. Finding cancer cells can be particularly difficult with infiltrative cancers such as glioma, which invades surrounding brain tissue.