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JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 38, Issue 10, Pages 1345-1351Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jrs.1774
Keywords
raman spectroscopy; breast carcinoma; invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC); ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast
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A relatively non-destructive method employing Raman spectroscopy for the analysis of histopathological specimens is described. Raman spectroscopy has allowed qualitative analysis of the same specimen used for histopathological evaluation. Breast cancer tissues have been analysed to demonstrate the feasibility of the chemical changes taking place in the biological tissue, which can be identified precisely, and the results are reproducible. Raman analysis of tissue sections provides distinct spectra that can be used to distinguish between the nuclear grades of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) of the breast. Sixty cases of breast carcinoma including DCIS and IDC and seven cases of normal breast tissues were studied employing the Raman spectroscopic technique. This study reports for the first time spectral differences between DCIS grades. It is concluded that Raman spectroscopy can objectively distinguish between DCIS and IDC grades and is non-destructive and reproducible. It should become possible in future to use Raman spectroscopy as an informative and quantitative method suitable for classification of grades and diagnosis of breast carcinoma. Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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