{"id":5024,"date":"2023-01-14T10:01:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T04:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:20:00","slug":"what-is-intelligent-knife-iknife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-intelligent-knife-iknife\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Intelligent Knife (iKnife)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the World Cancer Research Fund International, womb or endometrial cancer is the 6th most commonly occurring cancer among people with uteruses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>How it works:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The knife uses <strong>electric currents<\/strong> on biopsy tissue and then analyses the vapourised aerosols from the tissue in a mass spectrometer to give real-time information about activity in the tissue.<\/li>\n<li>The study noted that the knife reliably diagnosed <strong>endometrial cancer<\/strong> in tissue within seconds with an accuracy of 89%. This would greatly minimise the delays faced by patients who wait for a normal histopathological diagnosis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Chemotherapy?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a treatment which uses drugs to stop or kill the cancerous cells from the targeted part of the patient\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><u>New surgical knife detects endometrial cancer within seconds<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligent knife reliably diagnosed endometrial cancer in tissue within seconds with an accuracy of 89%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}