#iknife

[munaeem]

iKnife 'sniffs' uterine cancer in a few second

iKnife ‘sniffs’ uterine cancer in a few second

Experts say that iKnife can also be used to quickly find uterine cancer. It has already been used to find breast and brain cancer. Experts at Imperial College London say that iKnife has been used successfully to find another type of cancer and that this work can be done in seconds. So, thousands of women’s lives can be saved, and women won’t have to go through tests they don’t need to find out…

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[everythingsawfulnews]

This Awful Week - July 26, 2013

This week:  No one knows anything about rhythmic gymnastics.  Paula Deen throws a wedding.  Honey Boo Boo scratches and sniffs.  The Queen legalizes gay.  Vienna Boys' Choir begs for change.  The iKnife cuts out cancer.

[informthepublic]

In the first study to test the invention in the operating theatre, the “iKnife” diagnosed tissue samples from 91 patients with 100 per cent accuracy, instantly providing information that normally takes up to half an hour to reveal using laboratory tests.

[charray7]

Scientists in London have created an "intelligent" surgical knife that can detect in seconds whether tissue is cancerous or not during resection. This could prove to provide more effective and accurate surgery in the future. The knife is built by London's Imperial College researchers and could let physicians reduce supplementary surgeries to remove more pieces of a cancerous tumor.

[christhechemist]

A new tool could tell surgeons within seconds whether they are slicing through cancerous or healthy tissue. The tool, which analyzes smoke produced by electric currents used to cut or destroy tissue, was about 95 percent accurate in identifying cancers and other human tissues during surgery. Testing the smoke could help surgeons identify the outer margins of a tumor and remove as much of it as possible, leaving healthy tissue intact. Currently, if doctors need information about the extent of a cancer during a surgical procedure, they must wait 20 to 30 minutes for a tissue sample to be examined under a microscope. The new tool, nicknamed the iKnife, delivers a diagnosis in 2.5 seconds or less, researchers report July 17 in Science Translational Medicine.

[pakistaneducation-blog]

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PostSmart knife detects cancer in three seconds

LONDON: Surgeons removing cancerous tissue face a dilemma — how to cut out as little healthy tissue as possible while making sure all of the cancer is removed and knowing which is which. The world’s first intelligent knife, which uses an electrical current to vapourise the tissue while...

http://pakedu.net/health-and-beauty/smart-knife-detects-cancer-in-three-seconds/

[blogdopastel]

Novo bisturi 'inteligente' detecta tecido com câncer instantaneamente

'iKnife' analisa fumaça liberada por corte elétrico em paciente. Equipamento pode ajudar a evitar cirurgias adicionais. Pesquisadores do London Imperial College, no Reino Unido, desenvolveram um bisturi “inteligente” que pode detectar em segundos se um tecido que está sendo cortado é canceroso ou não. A novidade promete tornar as cirurgias para retirada de tumores mais efetivas no futuro, evitando operações adicionais. A tecnologia une um bisturi elétrico com um espectrômetro de massa capaz de fazer análises químicas. Muitas vezes, cirurgiões não conseguem identificar visualmente se um tecido é saudável ou canceroso. O resultado é que, nas operações para retirar câncer dos seios, por exemplo, é necessária uma intervenção adicional em um quinto dos casos.  O novo equipamento se chama “iKnife” e é desenhado para analisar amostras da fumaça que surge quando o tecido é cortado pela corrente elétrica do bisturi. Ele acaba de ser testado em 91 pacientes e acertou a identificação de tecido com câncer em 100% das vezes. Os resultados estão publicados na “Science Translational Medicine”. Até o surgimento do “iKnife”, o procedimento equivalente adotado era o de enviar amostras de tecido para exame em laboratório enquanto o paciente permanece sedado. No entanto, cada nova análise demora cerca de meia hora, enquanto o novo bisturi elétrico consegue checar se as células são cancerosas em apenas três segundos. FONTE: http://g1.globo.com/bemestar/noticia/2013/07/novo-bisturi-inteligente-detecta-tecido-com-cancer-instantaneamente.html

[the-science-llama]

Smart Knife Helps Surgeons Cut Cancer

A new surgical knife, invented by Zoltán Takáts, uses Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) to allow for real-time detection of cancerous tissue during surgery. The technology couples this with an already present technology called Electrosurgery which vaporizes flesh to cauterize wounds. The smoke from the vaporization can be used to detect signatures like more phospholipids in the cells, which cancerous cells have in larger amounts because they are dividing more often. So far the iKnife has proven to be very successful in detecting cancerous tissues.

Read more via Virginia Hughes // Originally published in Science Translational Medicine