Shining light on pancreatic cancer

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The animation shows that at the nanometer scale photons bounce off tissue at different angles depending on whether cells are healthy or not. The technique can see the relative difference between healthy and damaged tissue. Credit: Nicolle Rager Fulle ...
The animation shows that at the nanometer scale, photons bounce off tissue at different angles depending on whether cells are healthy or not. The technique can "see" the relative difference between healthy and damaged tissue. Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation

Using novel light-scattering techniques, researchers have found the first evidence that early stage pancreatic cancer causes subtle changes in part of the small intestine. The easily monitored marker may ultimately allow early detection for a disease notorious for having few obvious symptoms, the primary reason pancreatic cancer killed more than 33,000 Americans last year.


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