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Henricus J.C.M. Sterenborg

Erasmus Medical Center- Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy (The Netherlands)

updated 08/21/07 joined 06/02/07

Gamma Scanner Sensitive to Early Breast Cancer

A gamma camera has been customized to detect the earliest signs of breast cancer, before it can be felt as a lump or seen in a mammogram.\r\n

Levels: High School

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Biophotonics Light Tools for Cancer

Description: Biophotonics uses light to image, cure and detect disease. It is a very important technique for imaging and fighting cancer. The poster shows examples of the ways in which biophotonics is used towards cancer detection and therapy.

Attribution: SPIE and CBST 2009

Type: application/pdf

Tags: poster cancer biophotonics teacher resource

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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Photodynamic Therapy for Cancer

Levels: High School

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Pill - Sized Camera Can Be Swallowed - New York Times

Pill sized camera used to detect esophageal cancer. The pill is still connected to 7 fiber-optic cables.

Levels: Middle School, Public, High School, Undergrad, and Grad

Tags: cancer endoscope fiberoptic esophagus

YouTube - What is a Colonoscopy?

Video describing the procedure of a colonoscopy and giving background on tumors and colon cancer.

Levels: High School, Undergrad, and Grad

Tags: cancer colonoscopy

The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure Using Radio frequency photons? CBS News 60 minutes

using radio waves, the inventor looks at nanoparticles absorbing the RF energy and heating up destroying cancerous tissues around the nanoparticles.

Levels: Middle School, Public, High School, Undergrad, and Grad

Tags: cancer quantum dots nanoparticles gold rf radio frequency photons

David Douglas Sampson

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University of Western Australia

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updated 09/27/10 joined 09/27/10

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