(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Intelligent knife

(DECEMBER-2023)

Intelligent knife

• New research led by the Imperial College of London has recently found an intelligent knife (iKnife), which can be used to diagnose womb cancer within minutes.

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• According to the World Cancer Research Fund International. womb or endometrial cancer is the 6th most commonly occurring cancer among people with uteruses.
• The knife uses electric currents on biopsy tissue and then analyses the vapourised aerosols from the tissue in a mass spectrameter to give real-time information about activity in the tissue.
• The study noted that the knife reliably diagnosed endometrial cancer in tissue within seconds with an accuracy of 89%.
• This would greatly minimise the delays faced by patients who wait for a normal histopathological diagnosis.

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Courtesy: Science Reporter