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\nDespite a surgeon’s best efforts, residual cancer cells often remain after a tumor is removed. Now, a technology from NSF-funded small business NovaScan detects cancer cells in living tissue in real-time. The cancer-scanning device has...\nDespite a surgeon’s best efforts, residual cancer cells often remain after a tumor is removed. Now, a technology from NSF-funded small business NovaScan detects cancer cells in living tissue in real-time. The cancer-scanning device has already been used to find breast cancer cells.

Not only does this cancer-scanning device find cancer cells early, it can also help surgeons detect residual cancer cells after their surgery.

This cancer-scanning device helps address the \"Residual Cancer Problem\". Estimates from many studies indicate that after a surgery to remove cancer, anywhere from 20-40% of the cancer is left behind. That means the patient has to return to the hospital for additional surgeries to remove the residual cancer cells.

NovaScan’s William Gregory envisions the cancer-scanning device as detecting cancer in diagnosis and then making sure all of the residual cancer cells are removed during surgery. Here he talked about how the wand works at the 2014 BIO International Convention.\n
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