{"id":90420,"date":"2019-10-21T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=90420"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:14:28","slug":"roblyer-and-bu-botlab-highlighted-in-boston-globe-and-acs-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2019\/10\/21\/roblyer-and-bu-botlab-highlighted-in-boston-globe-and-acs-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Roblyer and BU BOTLab Highlighted in Boston Globe and ACS Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The Boston Globe has released an article featuring a wearable breast cancer probe, the work of BME Associate Professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/darren-roblyer-ph-d\/\"><span>Darren Roblyer <\/span><\/a><span>and the BU BOTLab (Biomedical Optical Technologies lab)<\/span><span>. The small, painless, wearable probe for breast cancer<\/span><span> offers a new way to assess treatment response in real time to see if a patient is responding to pre-surgical chemotherapy, providing a pathway to personalize the treatment plan for each patient. Dr. Roblyer is a two-time American Cancer Society grantee, and the article is published to highlight<\/span><span> Breast Cancer Awareness\u00a0Month:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/sponsored.bostonglobe.com\/bg-brandlab\/the-future-of-breast-cancer-treatment\/\">https:\/\/sponsored.bostonglobe.com\/bg-brandlab\/the-future-of-breast-cancer-treatment\/<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>In addition, the American Cancer Society TheoryLab has just released a podcast of an interview with Prof. Roblyer, including how the technology can help identify who is or is not responding to chemotherapy in the first week of therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>itunes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/monitoring-breast-tumors-with-a-small-wearable-probe\/id1454395139?i=1000452439735\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/monitoring-breast-tumors-with-a-small-wearable-probe\/id1454395139?i=1000452439735<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>soundcloud:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-378624011\/monitoring-breast-tumors-with-a-painless-wearable-probe\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-378624011\/monitoring-breast-tumors-with-a-painless-wearable-probe<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BME Associate Professor Darren Roblyer and BU&#8217;s BOTLab have developed a wearable probe for breast cancer, which uses light to monitor the tumor\u2019s response to chemotherapy. The technology is highlighted in the Boston Globe and an American Cancer Society podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,899],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164729,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90420\/revisions\/164729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}