P1DH.7 - Chemoresistive Sensors for Cancer Pre-Screening in Human Tissue
- Event
- 17th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors - IMCS 2018
2018-07-15 - 2018-07-19
Vienna, Austria - Chapter
- P-1 - Sensors for Diagnostics and Healthcare
- Author(s)
- M. Astolfi, G. Anania, M. Benedusi, V. Guidi, N. Landini, C. Palmonari, G. Rispoli, P. Secchiero, V. Tisato, S. Gallo, M. Valt, G. Zonta, C. Malagù - University of Ferrara, Ferrara (Italy), S. Gherardi - SCENT S.r.l., Ferrara (Italy)
- Pages
- 668 - 669
- DOI
- 10.5162/IMCS2018/P1DH.7
- ISBN
- 978-3-9816876-9-9
- Price
- free
Abstract
One of the greatest goals in medicine is early-stage detection of tumors, to allow physicians and surgeons to apply the therapies available, which are usually successful on small volume cancers only. Our purpose is to identify the presence of a cancer by detecting the metabolites exhaled by cancer cells (VOCs) that are different by the ones exhaled by healthy cells, through a chemoresistive sensor array. In this feasibility study, this fast-responding sensing technique proved to discriminate cancer cells from the healthy one, reliably and reproducibly, making it a good cancer screener with low invasiveness. The measures have been performed on cancer and healthy tissues coming from human colon and rectum.