Researchers capture first images of oxygen in cancer tumors during radiation therapy

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Oxygen in cancer tumors is a known major factor in the success of radiation therapy, but currently there are no good ways to monitor tumor oxygenation during this treatment. With specialty cameras and injection of an oxygen probe drug, researchers at Dartmouth's and Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center have demonstrated the first way to directly monitor the full range of oxygen distributions within the tumor right at the time when radiation therapy is happening.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news