'Optical Biopsy' For Breast Cancer Increasingly Accurate, Research Finds
Saturday, November 7, 2009 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
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 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.