Article on Colon Cancer Detection

Joy1216

There was an interesting article entitled Cancer Detection Makes a Stride in Thursday's Kansas City Star. Here's the article in case you didn't see it:
Scientists have developed a simple formula that can help find colon cancer patients with certain inherited bad genes.
The information can help determine the best course of treatment and identify family members who are also at risk.
The formula combines such factors as a patient's age and sex, and cancer characteristics like the tumor's location, and gives a score for the likelihood that inherited mutations are responsible. Its inventors have posted it on a Web site that any doctor can use.
The findings are to appear today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
For the gene-risk formula, go to www1.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/Softdata/MMRpredict.php
Joy

KathiM

Joy,
Thank you for sharing!
Hugs, kathi