2020 Translational grantee Dr. Shannon Stott is a biomedical engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University who designs new technologies to help doctors detect and monitor cancer using blood tests. Her lab develops devices that can sift through blood to find extremely rare traces of cancer, including tumor cells and microscopic particles released by tumors. These clues can reveal how a cancer is evolving and whether a treatment is working. This work is especially important for children with brain tumors. Today, doctors often rely on repeated MRI scans to monitor these cancers, but imaging alone cannot always show how a tumor is changing.
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