Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on August 1st, 2010 at 05:50am
TResearchers have created a new imaging compound in mice that selectively binds to certain cancer cells and glows, or fluoresces, only when processed by these cells. This cancer-specific fluorescence allowed the investigators to successfully visualize very small tumors in the peritoneum ? the tissue that lines the wall of the abdomen ? in mice with ovarian cancer. The sensitivity ? or ability to accurately detect small clusters of tumor cells ? of this approach was 92 percent. The study, conducted by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and colleagues, appears in the March 15, 2007 issue of Cancer Research.
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