article_snippet: Surgeons hope the Core, which has already proved successful in skin-cancer surgery in Canada, will allow Surgeons to remove as much of the cancerous growth as possible and also speed up operating times.
article_snippet: Senior neurosurgical trainee Babar Vaqas, who spearheaded the project to bring the Core to the UK, says: ‘There really is nothing like this at the moment.
article_snippet: Surgeons believe the pen-like probe could shave up to 30 minutes off the average three-hour surgery time (picture posed by models)
article_snippet: Mr Vaqas believes using the Core over the area could shave up to 30 minutes off the average three-hour surgery time.
article_snippet: The Core’s makers, Canadian company Verisante Technology, hopes the work at Imperial will replicate the success of a similar trial used to detect skin cancer on 1,000 patients at a hospital in Vancouver.
highlights_snippet: Pioneering technique could shave 30 minutes off three-hour operations .