{"id":89925,"date":"2019-04-24T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/imaging-system-helps-surgeons-remove-tiny-ovarian-tumors"},"modified":"2019-04-24T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:02:24","slug":"imaging-system-helps-surgeons-remove-tiny-ovarian-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/imaging-system-helps-surgeons-remove-tiny-ovarian-tumors","title":{"rendered":"Imaging system helps surgeons remove tiny ovarian tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imaging-system-helps-surgeons-remove-tiny-ovarian-tumors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ovarian cancer is usually diagnosed only after it has reached an advanced stage, with many tumors spread throughout the abdomen. Most patients undergo surgery to remove as many of these tumors as possible, but because some are so small and widespread, it is difficult to eradicate all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at MIT, working with surgeons and oncologists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), have now developed a way to improve the accuracy of this <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surgery\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surgery<\/a>, called debulking. Using a novel fluorescence imaging system, they were able to find and remove tumors as small as 0.3 millimeters\u2014smaller than a poppy seed\u2014during surgery in mice. Mice that underwent this type of image-guided surgery survived 40 percent longer than those who had tumors removed without the guided system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s nice about this system is that it allows for real-time information about the size, depth, and distribution of tumors,\u201d says Angela Belcher, the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science at MIT, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the recently appointed head of MIT\u2019s Department of Biological Engineering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-imaging-surgeons-tiny-ovarian-tumors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ovarian cancer is usually diagnosed only after it has reached an advanced stage, with many tumors spread throughout the abdomen. Most patients undergo surgery to remove as many of these tumors as possible, but because some are so small and widespread, it is difficult to eradicate all of them. Researchers at MIT, working with surgeons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}