I will admit that I watch too much Gray's Anatomy. I can't help it. I like the show. A lot of the patients on the show have cancer.They have to get surgery to remove whatever tumors they have. Well, sometimes they don't get it all.
Researchers have developed a spray that is able to mark cancer cells. They just have to spray on a fluorescent spray and in under a minute, any cancer cells they have missed will light up. This spray is great because if any cancer cells are missed during surgery then it will just keep growing, but with this spray doctors will be able to make sure they got everything.
The spray was developed by the National Cancer Institute. The spray works because it is activated when it comes in contact with a particular enzyme found in tumor cells. The spray will help with detecting ovarian and colon cancers because these cancers tend to spread.
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