The Institute of Cancer Research is reporting on new a new non-invasive imaging technique that measures the stiffness of tissues providing crucial new information about breast and pancreatic cancer architecture and could aid the delivery of treatment to the most challenging tumours.

 

 

Study co-leader Dr Yann Jamin, Children with Cancer UK Research Fellow and Senior Researcher in the Magnetic Resonance team, at the ICR said:

“We are very excited to have found a rapid scan that can be incorporated into a current routine clinical MRI examination and can potentially monitor the effects of these new tumour-weakening therapies, and assist the development and delivery of medicines which could save or extend lives.”

See the full release from the ICR here.