This hand-held cancer probe feels what surgeons may miss and changes how tumors are found in real time

Breast cancer impacts over two million women around the world each year. Following radiotherapy or chemotherapy, breast-conserving surgery is the first line of intervention for early-stage breast cancer. This surgery aims to remove the tumor while preserving as much of the healthy tissue as possible, but since precise tumor mapping during surgery is challenging, sometimes the tumor is not fully extracted.