MRI based on a sugar molecule can tell cancerous from noncancerous cells

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Imaging tests like mammograms or CT scans can detect tumors, but figuring out whether a growth is or isn't cancer usually requires a biopsy to study cells directly. Now results of a Johns Hopkins study suggest that MRI could one day make biopsies more effective or even replace them altogether by noninvasively detecting telltale sugar molecules shed by the outer membranes of cancerous cells.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news