Brain tumors are about to become easier to see now that a Wayne State University professor has received a $1.5 million grant to develop a brain-tumor-detection device.
Dr. Csaba Juhasz, assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology, will use the grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to develop a new imaging technique that will allow doctors to detect and diagnose brain tumors faster and more accurately.
The new technology will help find new tumors in brain cancer patients and allow doctors to see whether it really is a tumor or damage from surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. It could also let doctors to determine a tumor's type.
If the technology proves successful, it could help with detection of tumors in other types of cancer, too.
Source: Wayne State University
Writer: Jon Zemke