Dental and Oral Health News, Spanish scientists patent a faster and more reliable technique for diagnosing oral cancer
Malignant tumours of the oral cavity are the sixth leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Investigators from the Biomedical Research Institute (IBI), in Galicia (Spain), who form part of the BIOCAPS project, have patented a faster, more reliable and less invasive technique for detecting carcinomas in the oral mucosa. This patent has been licensed to the company Irida Ibérica, which is currently developing a portable prototype and will fund further research by the IBI scientists to establish the exact malignancy parameters by way of in vivo trials, in other words using tissues analysed in patients.