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Technology may find ovarian cancer cells at an earlier stage

 

Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science highlighted the Chicago Tribune’s coverage of a study conducted by Dr. Backman’s team, which showed promising results for PWS microscopy as a detection method for ovarian cancer. Click here to read full story.

Screening Detects Ovarian Cancer Using Neighboring Cells

 

Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science reported on the Backman Lab’s ovarian cancer study that was published in the International Journal of Cancer. As described in this article, “The PWS-based test makes use of the “field effect,” a biological phenomenon in which cells located some distance from the malignant or pre-malignant tumor [Continue Reading]

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