Study indicates racial differences in tumor collagen structure may impact cancer prognosis

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Researchers obtained second-harmonic-generation (SHG) images of more than 300 tumor samples. Their analysis found significant racial differences in a prognostic marker known as the forward-to-backward scattering ratio (F/B), which is associated with risk of tumor metastasis. Credit: T. Elias et al., doi 10.1117/1.BIOS.2.2.022703

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