Early-warning changes in precancerous epithelial cells can now be spotted in situ.
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More than 85% of all cancers originate in the epithelium that lines the internal surfaces of organs throughout the body. Although these are readily treatable provided they are diagnosed in one of the preinvasive stages1, early lesions are often almost impossible to detect. Here we present a new optical-probe technique based on light-scattering spectroscopy that is able to detect precancerous and early cancerous changes in cell-rich epithelia.
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Backman, V., Wallace, M., Perelman, L. et al. Detection of preinvasive cancer cells. Nature 406, 35–36 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35017638
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