How can you look at Cancer somehow? Do you need some special thing to see it?

Question: How can you look at Cancer somehow? Do you need some special thing to see it?
- Keywords:
  cancer,
  cancer cell,
  medical,
  medicine,
  microscope,
  treatment
Asked by jenny21 to Alex on 20 Jun 2011.
- Alex Davenport answered on 20 Jun 2011:
  
  We use Dyes, stains and fluorescent antibodies that bind to markers we know are expressed by cancer cells. These can then be viewed by microscopes and machines that read the fluorescent tags. Quite cool really!

jenny21 commented on 20 Jun 2011:

Dose cancer get any worst then this?

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Question: How can you look at Cancer somehow? Do you need some special thing to see it?