Oncology

Checkpoint’s newly CE marked device helps surgeons avoid nerve damage.

Expensive Proton Beam therapy availability is limited this side of the pond. For once we don’t advocate speeding adoption, but a lack of evidence doesn’t seem to have slowed demand for its use as a prostate treatment in USA.

In the ultimate embodiment of biomimetics, Singapore researchers have taken inspiration from a seafood dinner to develop a robot which can isolate and excise the tiniest lesions endoscopically.

Interview with the team leader behind tracheal transplant case in Stockholm, first reported a few weeks ago.

Surgeons at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have implanted a second patient with a synthetic trachea formed from CT scans of the patient’s own anatomy and seeded with his own stem cells.

Scientists and surgeons from France, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland have developed a “virtual liver”, using EU research funding, which will help surgeons better plan and carry out tumour operations and ensure quicker patient recovery.

Commercial production of a new device that measures melanoma using photoacoustics, or laser-induced ultrasound, will soon be available to scientists and academia for cancer studies.