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Articulating Confocal Endoscope For Imaging Cancers In Vivo, Gary Peterson, Michael Prince, Charles Dimarzio, Frank Dibella, Melind Rajadhyaksha

Michael J. Prince

Skin cancers are among the highest incidence cancers, with 1.2 million new cases detected each year in the United States. To detect these new cases, 5.5 million biopsies are performed. Of these 5.5 million biopsies, approximately 4.3 million cases turn out to be normal. These 4.3 million biopsies, which may potentially be avoided, costs US healthcare more than $2 billion every year. Similarly, oral cancers are among the highest incidence cancers worldwide, with an estimated 274,000 new cases detected. Biopsies are invasive, painful, destroy the site under study and leaves scarring. Often, the best areas to biopsy are difficult to …