Cancer research recently revealed that anticancer therapies can cause cell senescence instead of death, a phenotype governing tumor relapse. Developing safe, quick, and precise tools to spot such therapy-induced senescence (TIS) is an urgency.
We present multimodal coherent Raman and multiphoton nonlinear optical microscopy as powerful to unveil TIS, via a home-built microscope including forward-detected Stimulated Raman Scattering, forward and epi-detected Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering, Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence and Second-Harmonic Generation modalities. We exposed early TIS in human cancer cells, confirmed comparing diverse signals during therapy period.
We consider our findings will strongly influence anticancer practices, helping prevent tumor recurrence.
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