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Congratulations to Jeanie Malone for winning best Best Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Presentation at the second annual Trainee Research Day
Trainee Research Day is hosted by the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative to celebrate and highlight the incredible work of gynecologic cancer trainees in British Columbia. Her oral presentation “Multimodal Optical Imaging of Ex Vivo Fallopian Tubes” won for best Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Presentation .
Our recent publication Feasibility of combined optical coherence tomography and autofluorescence imaging for visualization of needle biopsy placement made the cover of the October 2020 Journal of Biomedical Optics!
You can read the issue here.
Interested in Graduate School? There is a graduate student recruiting event at SFU this Thursday, November 29th, 2018 from 11:00am – 1:30pm in TASC1 9204.
Fluorescence visualization may drastically reduce local cancer recurrence by helping surgeons better visualize the diseased area around a cancerous lesion. New findings from a study nearly a decade in the making suggest fluorescence visualization during oral cancer surgery drastically improves the accuracy of the removal of cancerous tissue. This significantly reduces local recurrence rates of oral cancer. Learn more here.
