New Blood Test Promising for Spotting Cancers

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New Blood Test Promising for Spotting Cancers

Tuesday, January 04 2011


(Boston, MA) -- A new blood test could change the way cancer is spotted and treated. The test can detect one cancer cell among a billion healthy cells.

This is the equipment, at a lab in Charlestown, the cancer researchers are using to spot a single cancer cell among a billion healthy ones. Those stray cancer cells mean a tumor has or may spread or metasticize.

The researchers say the test they are developing is like a "liquid biopsy" that avoids painful needle penetration to determine what treatment is best for each patient's tumor which holds great promise.

"The greatest promise of the test really is to be able to sample tumors without having to do a biopsy, without having to do an invasive procedure and to do it over and over again during the course of a patient's treatment," explains Dr. Daniel Haber, director of the MGH Cancer Center.

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[siligut]

1. This is big news

An inexpensive non-invasive way to check for the stages of cancer. A division of Johnson and Johnson will be manufacturing these chips.

[NV Whino]

2. Don't worry

Insurance companies will deny it as being experimental.

[Celebration]

3. not if it is cheaper than mammograms

Let's hope that it replaces those!

[NV Whino]

4. I could certainly get behind that!

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5. Johnson & Johnson has invested in this...

Which means that it's an EVUL PHARMA CONSPIRACY!!!!!1