CTCs are rarecancercells that tumors shed in the blood. They've been looked at before inprostate cancer, but only in its later stages. "No one, until now, has looked at whether CTC counts can be used right at the beginning, when a man first presents with metastatic prostatecancer, to ...
The article reports that measuring the serum concentration of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), combined with a rectal examination is a better screening test than rectal examination alone for...
The Stockholm3 blood test, developed by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, is equally effective at detecting prostate cancer in different ethnic groups, a new paperpublishedin theJournal of Clinical Oncologyreports. The test produces significantly better results than the current PSA standard. Stockholm...
Prof Dmitry Pshezhetskiy, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said, "Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and kills one man every 45 minutes in the UK. "There is currently no single test for prostate cancer, but PSA blood tests are among the most used, alongside physical exam...
PSA blood tests for prostate cancer should start earlier in life Date: Thursday, 2-Nov-2006 A study has found that measuring prostate specific antigen (PSA) in the blood may be the best way of identifying men with life-threatening prostate cancer. The PSA test is used to screen for prostat...
Prostate Cancer Blood Test May Avert BiopsiesJody A. CharnowEditor
“The researchers hope that the test will help in the rapid assessment of advanced prostate cancer patient responses to treatment and enable clinicians to determine whether alternative therapies are needed.” All the participants in the study were part of a clinical trial evaluating the abili...
TheCA-125 blood testis used to detect the level of the protein, CA-125, which is referred to as a “tumor marker.” This test can sometimes be helpful in identifying ovarian cancer because cancer cells in the ovary release this protein into the body. However, there are other conditions not...
According to the scientists,the test could detect many types ofcancer,mainly breast,prostate,colon and lung. Advertisement “This is like a liquid biopsy that avoids painful tissue sampling and may give a better way to monitor patients than periodic imaging scans,” the media quoted Daniel Haber...
population-level screening: the ability to detect multiple deadly cancer types with a single test that has a very low false positive rate, and the ability to identify where in the body the cancer is located with high accuracy to help healthcare providers to direct next ste...