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Article: RESEARCHER: 'OPTICAL BIOPSY' FOR BREAST CANCER INCREASINGLY ACCURATE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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GAINESVILLE, Fla., Nov. 5 -- The University of Florida issued the following news release:
Most biopsies following mammograms reveal benign abnormalities, not cancer.
But women may not have to endure the medical costs, stress and potential complications that accompany such invasive biopsies forever. A University of Florida biomedical engineering researcher is making progress on an "optical biopsy" that has the potential to determine whether growths are cancerous without ever puncturing the skin.
"At this stage, it is just too early for optical tomography to be a screening tool," said Huabei Jiang, the J. Crayton Pruitt Family professor of biomedical engineering, who has spent more than a ...