Revolutionary new probe zooms in on cancer cells
Image by Science Translational Medicine; Petrecca K, Leblond F et al.
McGill University News, Feburary 11, 2015
Improves tumour surgeries and extends survival times for brain cancer patients
Brain cancer patients may live longer thanks to a new cancer-detection method developed by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro, at McGill University and the MUHC, and Polytechnique Montréal. The collaborative team has created a powerful new intraoperative probe for detecting cancer cells. The hand-held Raman spectroscopy probe enables surgeons, for the first time, to accurately detect virtually all invasive brain cancer cells in real time during surgery. The probe is superior to existing technology and could set a new standard for successful brain cancer surgery.