Oral cancer publication

In case some didn`t get email from Optiscan this morning. This is the conclusion from the publication

This study has demonstrated potential to increase diagnostic precision, augmenting current standard of care, by completing a more comprehensive imaging digital biopsy protocol of the patient without requiring more invasive scalpel biopsies. We have demonstrated successful implemented acquisition and annotation elements. In this way, the need for multiple biopsies may be reduced with onward facilitation of longitudinal comparison. High resolution microscopy of the oral cavity is demonstrated here with the clear capture of micrographic images of quality for pathological assessment of the oral cavity. We predict that the use of non-invasive high-resolution microscopy will have significant utility for the monitoring of oral potential malignant disorders, achieving not only the reduction in the need for scalpel biopsy whilst further allowing for increased data acquisition in less time, thus leading to higher diagnostic precision. This will result in a significant shift in the current paradigm of the visual and pathology-based assessment of individuals living with oral lesions and advance our ability to achieve earliest diagnosis, prevention and diminish mortality from oral cancer.

No doubt Tiresias will expand on this over the weekend


Frontiers | Acquisition and annotation in high resolution in vivo digital biopsy by confocal microscopy for diagnosis in oral precancer and cancer (frontiersin.org)