Novel Method Identifies Breast Cancer Patients Who Will Benefit from Chemotherapy

Columbia University researchers have used red and near-infrared light to identify breast cancer patients who will respond to chemotherapy. The imaging system may be able to predict response to chemotherapy as early as two weeks after beginning treatment, according to the team.Results from a first pilot study (“Dynamic diffuse optical tomography for monitoring neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients") of the new imaging system--a noninvasive method of measuring blood fl