Imaging cancer gene activity in patients from outside the body
Eric Wickstrom1, Mathew L Thakur
1Laboratory of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Biotechnology Healthcare
|February 21, 2013
Abstract:
Is the lump malignant or benign? The investigators propose to answer this question by injecting a nuclear medicine gene probe into patients with suspicious lumps in their breasts. They then use scanning techniques to see if active cancer genes light up.
