"KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE":'Tumour paint' may help surgeons

A 'tumour paint' could help surgeons remove cancer more accurately and so help prevent the disease returning, US scientists say.In mice, the paint lit up cancer cells but not normal cells, so it could show surgeons exactly where tumours are.This will help ensure they do not harm healthy tissues or leave cancerous cells behind during surgery, which could mean the tumours return.The research is published in the journal Cancer Research. But UK experts have warned more research is needed to find out exactly why the molecule only binds specifically to tumour cells, and to ensure it is not toxic in humans.Researchers the Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, developed the paint from a molecule called chemotoxin, which comes from scorpions.Chemotoxin has previously been found to bind specifically to cancer cells in brain tumour biopsies, but not to normal brain cells, and in the new study they showed it bound specifically to a range of cancers.
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