“…Assessing/identifying tumour margins (Alawi et al, 2013;Nguyen et al, 2009) Cancer diagnosis (Chen et al, 2007;Gora et al, 2013;Karl et al, 2010;Kim et al, 2009) Combined OCT and Raman spectroscopy to detect colon and breast cancers based on signature of lipids, collagen and DNA (Ashok et al, 2013;Patil et al, 2008) Coherent Multi-modal CARS imaging for pathological detection and live imaging of cancer (Evans and Xie, 2008;Evans et al, 2007;Heuke et al, 2013;Lee et al, 2015;Lee and Serrels, 2016;Meyer et al, 2011;Meyer et al, 2013;Xu et al, 2013b) Link metabolic changes to disease (Le et al, 2009(Le et al, , 2007 with ongoing advances in CARS endoscopy (Légaré et al, 2006) Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) of endogenous compounds…”