The sound of melanoma can help doctors find cancer

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 02/22/2010 - 23:00

(University of Missouri-Columbia) University of Missouri researchers in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center are studying how photoacoustics, or a laser-induced ultrasound, could help scientists locate the general area of the lymph node where melanoma cells could be residing.

This new technology could help doctors identify the stage of melanoma with more accuracy.

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