So, for many years our goal has been to develop a simple blood test that can be used first to determine the need for screening and to make screening for lung cancer that much more effective," says study coauthor Samir M. Hanash, MD, PhD, professor of clinical cancer prevention and the...
Louise Showe, a researcher at the Wistar Institute, is working to change the future of lung cancer. She's perfecting a blood test that detects early stage cancer by analyzing genetic activity in the blood. "We developed a panel of 29 genes--some of which are up, some of which are down...
Blood test may help determine if nodules detected by CT scans are lung cancer byUniversity of Missouri Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Annual screenings of patients at high risk for lung cancer can catch tumors early and improve a patient's long-term prognosis. However, low-dose computer to...
A groundbreaking study has revealed advancements in lung cancer detection using an ultra-sensitive personalized test designed to identify even the smallest traces of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in the blood of cancer patients and survivors. More... Visit expo >...
The World Health Organizationestimatesthat around 900,000 people each year die of colorectal cancer (CRC), making it the world’s second deadliest cancer (after lung cancer). Five-year disease-free survival after surgery is around 80% for people with stage II disease; for people with stage II...
Cancer DNA circulating in the bloodstream of lung cancer patients can provide doctors with vital mutation information that can help optimise treatment when tumour tissue is not available, an international group of researchers has reported at the European
Blood test could provide cheaper, better way for doctors to manage lung cancer byStanford University Medical Center Lung CA seen on CXR. Credit:CC BY-SA 4.0James Heilman, MD/Wikipedia Profiling the genes of lung-tumor cells from patient blood samples may be a cheap, noninvasive way to help...
Harris is among the first group of patients in Illinois to get the blood test as part of a pilot program at health system OSF HealthCare, which is offering the test at 18 locations. OSF leaders hope the blood test will improve early detection of lung cancer, which kills more people in ...
Testing for the presence of specific cancer protein 'fingerprints' in the blood of lung cancer patients may be a useful means of identifying a subgroup whose tumors are more likely to shrink when treated with the drug erlotinib, especially when other testing methods are unavailable, according to...
A blood-based test developed by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center can efficiently predict an individual's risk of dying from lung cancer when combined with a personalized risk model. Ad According to new data published in theJournal of Clinical Oncology, a blood-bas...