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Shedding a New Light on Cancer

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David L. Shenkenberg, Features Editor, [email protected]

The recent high-profile pancreatic cancer cases of actor Patrick Swayze and Apple CEO Steve Jobs have called attention to the more than 37,000 Americans who are diagnosed with the disease each year, according to the National Cancer Institute. Although more than 95 percent of pancreatic cancer patients will die within five years of receiving a diagnosis, only 7 percent of patients are diagnosed in the early stages of the disease, when it is most treatable. Spectroscopic methods that could detect pancreatic and other types of cancer earlier are being developed by professor Vadim Backman and...Read full article

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    Published: April 2009
    BiophotonicsFeaturesgastroenterologistsMicroscopyNational Cancer Institutepancreatic cancerspectroscopy

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