Breakthrough In Cancer Detection
Summary
A team of Boston scientists developed a procedure that can detect cancer just by using a blood test, rather than using invasive procedures such as mammographies or colonoscopiers. This test can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy cells. Stray cancer cells may mean that a cancer is spreading.
If doctors can find spreading cancers early, the treatments that are available today are much more effective. Prior to this test however, most of the “big killer” cancers are found when they are at Stage 3 or Stage 4 – when it is often times too late.
Keywords: cancer detection, cancer treatment, early treatment for cancer, sampling tumors, Johnson & Johnson, Mitchell Cancer Institute
