Rebecca Wilson
The Institute of Optics
Multi-Modal Optical Techniques for Intra-Procedural Evaluation of Breast Cancer Specimens
Tuesday, August 2
12:00- 1:00 PM
Goergen 101
A major problem for breast cancer clinicians is evaluating breast cancer at point-of-care during needle core biopsies or lumpectomy surgeries. Patients frequently have to wait days to get a diagnosis, or to find out that some of the cancer was missed (lumpectomies result in a second surgery 30-50% of the time). Microscopy techniques such as confocal and OCT have offered the ability to evaluate such tissues without complicated preparation, but are too time consuming to be clinically useful. I will present research on multi-modal optical techniques to aid clinicians in evaluation of breast lumpectomies and needle core biopsies to allow for rapid intra-procedure microscopic evaluation.
