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    The document describes a new surgical tool called the iKnife that can instantly identify cancerous tissues during surgery. The iKnife is an intelligent scalpel invented by Zoltán Takáts that uses electrosurgery to generate smoke from cut tissue, which it then analyzes in real time to establish the molecular composition and detect the presence of cancer. Compared to traditional surgery, the iKnife provides feedback within 3 seconds, helps establish exact tumor boundaries to aid removal, and could help reduce tumor recurrence rates through more accurate and complete removal of cancerous cells during operations.

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    The document describes a new surgical tool called the iKnife that can instantly identify cancerous tissues during surgery. The iKnife is an intelligent scalpel invented by Zoltán Takáts that uses electrosurgery to generate smoke from cut tissue, which it then analyzes in real time to establish the molecular composition and detect the presence of cancer. Compared to traditional surgery, the iKnife provides feedback within 3 seconds, helps establish exact tumor boundaries to aid removal, and could help reduce tumor recurrence rates through more accurate and complete removal of cancerous cells during operations.

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    IKnife

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    The document describes a new surgical tool called the iKnife that can instantly identify cancerous tissues during surgery. The iKnife is an intelligent scalpel invented by Zoltán Takáts that uses electrosurgery to generate smoke from cut tissue, which it then analyzes in real time to establish the molecular composition and detect the presence of cancer. Compared to traditional surgery, the iKnife provides feedback within 3 seconds, helps establish exact tumor boundaries to aid removal, and could help reduce tumor recurrence rates through more accurate and complete removal of cancerous cells during operations.

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    iKnife

    A potential ‚game-changer’
    for cancer surgery
    Challenges of tumour removal

    Difficulty in
    Time consuming High rate of
    establishing exact
    lab analyses reoperation
    boundaries
    The iKnife
    • Intelligent scalpel
    • Instantly identifies cancerous tissues as it contacts them
    • Invented by Zoltán Takáts (Ph.D), a Hungarian chemist, at
    Imperial College London in 2013
    How does it work?

    • Based on electrosurgery
    • Electrical blades burn tissue  smoke
    • It is actually rich in biological information

    „I was developing new tools that […] could tell you


    the composition of a sample
    in real time.”
    (Z. Takats)

    Video
    Benefits of iKnife

    Difficulty in
    Time consuming High rate of
    establishing exact
    lab analyses reoperation
    boundaries

    Identifies
    Feedback in about Reduced tumour
    cancer
    3 seconds recurrence rates
    during surgery
    „With more testing and tinkering, the surgeons of the future could
    have something that the surgeons today don’t always have; certainty
    that every last cancer cell has been removed, and the confidence to
    tell their patients that surgery went well, and they won’t be seeing
    them again.”

    https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/

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