New Imaging Pen Helps Identify Cancerous Skin Lesions, University of Texas Study

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A biopsy is the only sure way to diagnose skin cancer, but having good confidence that a lesion is cancerous before a biopsy can reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies performed. A new tool developed by researchers at University of Texas at Austin uses three different mechanisms to image a lesion, potentially providing a new way to identify suspected tumors. It’s currently undergoing pilot clinical trials.

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