Using sugar to detect malignant tumours
Ordinary sugar could become a contrast agent of the future for use in magnetic resonance tomography examinations of tumours. Malignant tumours show higher sugar consumption than surrounding tissue. “If sugar replaces metal as a contrast agent in the body, it can also have a positive psychological effect and make patients calmer,” says Linda Knutsson, senior lecturer at Lund University in Sweden.A
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-sugar-detect-malignant-tumours - 2025-12-11
