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A glowing dye that clings to cancer cells gives surgeons a “second pair of eyes” to eradicate the disease, University of Oxford experts have found. The dye, which has been developed for prostate cancer but could be adapted to other forms of the disease, shows up areas of cancerous tissue not picked up by the naked eye during surgery. This allows doctors to remove far more of the cancer in real-time, and slashes the chance of the disease coming back. Cancer Research UK, which funded the scientists, said full clinical trials are underway to find out if surgery with the marker dye removes more pr…

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