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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Sarah Ward

‘Pioneering’ technology to be used on UK brain tumour patients in world-first

Field cycling imaging (FCI) is a new and specialist type of low-field MRI scan - (AFP/Getty)

A “pioneering” new scanner developed by scientists in Scotland could significantly improve treatment for patients with glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive type of brain tumour.

More than 3,000 new patients are diagnosed with glioblastoma in the UK each year, and half of all patients die within 15 months of diagnosis, even after extensive surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

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