[Neuropostdocs] Graduate Cancer Community @ Illinois -- Stephen Boppart Seminar, Monday March 11 12-1pm

[Sam Beshers]

On 3/6/2013 11:03 AM, cancer-community wrote:
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>
> The next Graduate Cancer community @ Illinois seminar will take place 
> on Monday, March 11 from 12-1pm. Refreshments will be provided for 
> seminar attendees!
>
> *Monday, March 11, 12:00-1:00pm (Medical Sciences Building Auditorium, 
> 506 S. Mathews Avenue)*
> *Professor Stephen Boppart, MD/PhD*
> *"Optical Biopsy of Tumor Margins and Lymph Nodes during Breast Cancer 
> Surgery"*
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> *
>
> Medicine and surgery have traditionally relied on 
> the histopathological examination of resected tissue specimens for 
> diagnosis and staging of cancer.  Current breast conserving surgeries 
> (lumpectomies), however, result in a 30% re-operation rate due to 
> positive surgical margins found post-operatively in the pathology lab. 
> Advances in high-resolution, real-time, 3-D tomographic optical 
> imaging now permit optical biopsies in the operating room, with 
> feedback to surgeons during the intervention.  This seminar will 
> present the use of intraoperative optical coherence tomography (OCT), 
> as well as recent advances in computed imaging techniques to improve 
> resolution and diagnostic information.  Future efforts are being 
> directed toward using other label-free methods to provide not only 
> structural information, but also molecular information about the tumor 
> margin. _Translational activities toward commercialization and 
> dissemination of these medical imaging technologies will also be 
> discussed._
>
> .
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> For more information, contact cancer-community at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:cancercommunity at illinois.edu>. The Focal Point Initiative 
> <http://www.grad.illinois.edu/focal-point-feature> is sponsored by the 
> Graduate College.
>

-- 
Samuel Beshers, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Program Coordinator
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
405 N. Mathews, Rm 1624
Urbana, IL  61801
217-333-4971

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