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University of Texas researchers at Tunnell Group and Seton doctors won the 2015 SXSW Interactive Awards Sci-Fi No Longer category. (We beat out a flying car!)
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UT scientists shed light on skin cancer" Xu Feng, a biomedical engineering graduate student working on this project, studies how the skin changes as cancer progresses. She said that the best part of the device is that it is non-invasive, which means it is completely harmless to patients.
“The current method for detecting skin cancer involves the surgeon looking at the lesion, its color, shape, etc. and then deciding if surgery needs to be done,” Feng said. “The skin gets cut, then there’s histopathology, sectioning, staining, microscopy and they often find they need to cut more skin until all the malignant tissue is finally removed.” Not only does this process take a very long time, but it wastes about $2.8 billion a year, according to Feng. Doctors and patients can avoid this spending by using devices such as the one Tunnell and Reichenberg have created. " Source: www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/02/18/ut-scientists-shed-light-on-skin-cancer |