Optical detection of triple negative breast cancer metabolism

Early diagnosis of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is essential to implementing early, life-saving treatment before the development of metastases. Traditional methods for detecting TNBC is difficult, being both tedious and vulnerable to false positive results. Here we combine optical imaging techniques—deuterium probed resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS) and multiphoton fluorescence (MPF) to detect TNBC metabolism in early stage. These hallmarks such as glucose and lipid metabolism are revealed through chemical bond vibrational modes with RRS and morphological changes with MPF at subcellular scale.