He makes a scalpel that identifies cancerous tumors

British scientists have announced that they have successfully built a clever surgical knife that can quickly identify in a few seconds whether the tumor will cut cancerous or not.

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This invention is expected to ensure accuracy and effectiveness in the surgical removal of cancerous tumors in the future.

Researchers at Imperial College in London, England, say the device is a combination of an electronic surgical knife that can cut tissue with electric current and an anatomically-tunable mass-spectrometer. The chemicals from the cut tissue.

Called iKnife , this device is considered to be a big step in identifying cancerous tissues in the course of surgery.

With a time of just 3 seconds for accurate results, it will help the doctor make the decision right on the operating table.

Now, to see if the tissues are cancerous, doctors have to send the cut tissue to the lab for analysis.

The method is expensive and takes 20-30 minutes to get results, during which time the patient is placed in a coma. In addition, the ability to miss cancerous tissue is very high because no matter how experienced the surgeon can not clearly distinguish the diseased tissue and healthy tissue.

Approximately one fifth of patients with breast cancer have to have surgery on the operating table two times after surgery to remove the tumor.

iKnife was used to identify the cancerous tissues of 91 patients and gave an absolute precision.

Zoltan Takats, the inventor of the tool, said that the knife would be tested with between 1,000 and 1,500 different cancer patients for 2-3 years, spread on the market. The trial version of iKnife is worth about $ 300,000.