Breakthrough optical technology to assess colon cancer risk, accuracy
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 13:21
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Northwestern University have discovered that fiber optic technology can for the very first time effectively measure blood levels in the colonic lining (mucosa) in humans, thus having potential applications for analyzing risk of colon cancer.
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