Many genetic cancer markers involve a point mutation on a particular gene. Point mutations are difficult to detect because they are in such small quantities in blood compared to normal cell-freenucleic acids, or wild type. One way that scientists have made PCR more sensitive is by using genetic...
A very sensitive blood test is used to capture circulating tumor cells (CTC's) and evaluate their HER-2 gene status by FISH evaluation. The HER-2 status of the primary tumor and corresponding CTC's is used to assess the ratio of CTC's as a reliable surrogate marker. HER-2 expression ...
This common blood test measures the amount and condition of the various types of blood cells in a sample of blood, including red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. While it is used for many other purposes, this test can also help in diagnosing some blood cancers, such as leukemi...
The researchers found that testing for nine of these mutated genes, in combination with a test to determine the stage of myeloma, identified 90 per cent of patients with veryaggressive diseasewho died prematurely. Myeloma patients with mutations within their cancers in a gene called CCND1, which ...
the sensitivity of blood testing would be very low when applied to patients not already known to have cancer. Considering the effectiveness of current SOC screening approaches, an ideal and novel multi-cancer blood test should increase cancer detection rates in a complementary way to SOC screening ...
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 meth...
The new blood test, which screens for key proteins and gene mutations that indicate the presence of the cancers, was able to detect tumors in patients in the early stages of the condition in about 70 percent of the cases. Work on the tests is ongoing, with the researchers' latest findings...
The most likely explanation, however, is that the virus, containing the new DNA, randomly inserted itself in the genome of the blood cells as is usually the case, but by accident ended up in the middle of another gene, probably one that protects blood cells against development of leukemia....
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Genetic testing, to identify pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in prostate cancer, is valuable in guiding treatment decisions for men with prostate cancer and to inform cancer prevention and early detection options for their immediate blood relatives. There are various guidelines and consensus stat...