Key points from article :
New imaging technology to grade tumour biopsies.
Reduce the subjectivity and variability.
Nearly all biopsies stained with same two vegetable dyes used for 100 years.
Practitioners will only agree on a slice's grade about 70% of the time.
Digistain using mid-infrared light to photograph the tissue slices.
Measures chemical changes such as nuclear-to-cytoplasmic-ratio (NCR).
Based on a physical measurement, rather than a human judgement.
The study was published in the journal Convergent Science Physical Oncology.
