A hi-tech scan that takes just five seconds to perform can tell if chemotherapy is working in patients with breast cancer. Up to 55,000 women a year in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer, with one in seven women developing it in their lifetime. But it is also routinely used after surgery to ‘mop up’ any lingering cancer cells. Scientists who developed the scan at Washington University in St Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, both in the U.S., tested it on 38 women with breast cancer. The results, published recently in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, showed it was highly accurate in predicting which tumours would respond well to chemo.

Source: The Nation August 17, 2021 00:56 UTC