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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Better Cancer Detection, More Accurate Staging With New Imaging Agent

March 23, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a new imaging dye, designed and developed at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, is an effective agent in detecting and mapping cancers that have reached the lymph nodes. The radioactive dye called Technetium Tc-99m tilmanocept, successfully identified cancerous lymph nodes and did a better job of marking cancers than the current standard dye. Results of the Phase III clinical trial have been published online in the Annals of Surgical Oncology. Read more:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/258007.php

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