Lighting Up Malignant Tissues Could Boost Precision of Surgical Removal
In most cases, the early discovery of cancer is directly tied to a patient’s chances of surviving the condition. Completely curing cancer may not be an option, but clinicians have several tools that allow them to kill off the majority of cancer cells and prevent them from spreading to healthy tissue. Surgery is usually considered when a tumor is present in only one part of the body and can be surgically removed in all its entirety. This approach to cancer treatment tends to be seen as “curative” because it seeks to completely remove cancer cells from the body. In many…