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Camera-in-needle invention targets cancer

2009-10-27
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A low-cost camera-in-a-needle invented by Rice University professors Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Tomasz Tkaczyk and their students is in human trials and being used to look for signs of esophageal and cervical cancer. More trials are on the horizon to detect oral and colon cancer, all with a device that costs a fraction of others.