GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Surgeons in northeast Wisconsin now have a new tool to help them detect cancer cells that might otherwise remain invisible — a medical dye called Cytalux that makes hidden cancerous tissue glow during surgery.

Dr. Erin Stevens, a gynecologic oncologist in Green Bay, recently became the first physician in northeast Wisconsin to use Cytalux in an operation, giving her what she describes as “sight beyond sight.”

“What Cytalux does for us is allow us to light up these cells so we can remove them during surgery,” Dr. Stevens explained. “We were able to remove more cancer than what I could see with my naked eye.”

Her first patient to benefit from this ground-breaking technology was Peggy, a woman from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula diagnosed with early-stage ovarian cancer

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