This handheld mass spectrometer could make surgeries to remove cancerous tissue quicker and more accurate
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Did you get it all?” is a question many cancer patients ask when waking from surgery.
Unfortunately, cancer surgeons rarely know for sure. Surgeons will try to get “clean margins,” removing enough tissue around a tumor to ensure they’ve cut out any microscopic malignancies. But it’s an inexact procedure, and often results in healthy tissue being removed unnecessarily.