OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) – Groundbreaking cancer research is ongoing at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Researchers said in the near future, doctors in clinics could be detecting cancer tumors like never before.
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It’s a study that’s the first of its kind with a targeted agent that finds even the most microscopic tumors within someone’s body and allows them make sure they get all of them out and leave nothing behind.
“It could be game changing for patients,” researcher and professor in the University of Oklahoma Department of Surgery, Lacey McNally said.
Chief of Surgical Oncology and professor, Ajay Jain, M.D., joined McNally in the research at OU Health’s Stephenson Cancer Center.
“This technology allows us to see the cancer cells at a microscopic level,” Jain said.
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“So our project is on a way to be able to more directly and more accurately resect pancreas tumors, pancreatic cancer,” McNally said.