How dye that makes invisible prostate tumours glow may soon be used by surgeons to remove more of the cancerous growth in real-time
Daily MailSurgeons may soon be better able to remove prostate cancer thanks to a dye that makes tumours glow. Cancer Research UK, which funded the scientists, said full clinical trials are under way to find out if surgery with the dye removes more prostate cancer and preserves more healthy tissue than existing surgical techniques. University of Oxford experts said the dye acts as a 'second pair of eyes', lighting up cancerous tissue Surgery professor Freddie Hamdy said the technique 'allows us to preserve as much of the healthy structures around the prostate as we can' In an initial study, 23 men with prostate cancer were injected with the marker dye before having surgery to remove their prostates. Surgery professor Freddie Hamdy, from the University of Oxford and lead author of the study, said: 'It's the first time we've managed to see such fine details of prostate cancer in real-time during surgery.'
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