Brian Brigman, MD, PhD, on ABC11 News

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Tuesday, February 02, 2016 06:44PM

Duke doctors are testing out a new tool that could help in the fight against cancer. It’s an injectable agent that acts like a fluorescent dye under a special camera that helps surgeons determine if they’ve removed all traces of a cancerous tumor.

“In the operating room our goal is to take out 100 percent of a patient’s tumor, and the way we try to do that is to take out a margin of normal tissue around the tumor. There are parts of the tumor that are microscopic that we couldn’t see even if we wanted to. What the probe does is allow us to see microscopic disease that was maybe left behind,” explained Brian Brigman, M.D., Ph.D., chief of orthopedic oncology at Duke. Read more here.

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