David Rew Consultant General Surgeon

Parts 1 and 2 - Laser Cytometry of Human Tissues
and Tumors: Proliferation and Therapeutic Applications

David A. Rew
Royal South Hants Cancer Centre
Southampton University Hospitals
Southampton SO14 0YG, England

1. Introduction

Treatment strategies for cancers are often inadequate. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy all have serious limitations. The clinician thus seeks help from science and technology to achieve better clinical outcomes. The modern tools of cytometry have given us a whole new range of investigative capabilities at the cell and tissue level. Nevertheless, the trained human eye and the brain of the cytologist and histopathologist remain the fastest, most efficient, and most versatile image processor. The conventionally stained histological section contains an immense amount of information about tissue architecture, constitution, cell size, and characteristics.

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