Folks with a suspicious-looking mole or questionable skin lesion often have to endure a scalpel or shaver so their doctor can cut off a sample to send in for biopsy. But a new, noninvasive 'virtual biopsy' might soon allow doctors to instead scan the spot to determine if it...
Folks with a suspicious-looking mole or questionable skin lesion often have to endure a scalpel or shaver so their doctor can cut off a sample to send in for biopsy.
And while it will be useful in dermatology, the new scan could also help doctors detect cancer in other ways, they added. A former graduate student in de la Zerda’s lab, Yonatan Winetraub, developed the method. Winetraum now leads his own research lab at Stanford focusing in part on virtual biopsies. Preparing these slides take a lot of work, and it does irreversible damage to the biopsied tissue. Once a biopsy is sliced in one direction, for example, it can’t be sliced another way to provide a different view.OCT scans typically are used by eye doctors to examine the back of the eye, but de la Zerda and Winetraub enhanced the scans so they would work in other organs as well.
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