It's a start....

Kentr
Kentr Member Posts: 111
edited March 2014 in Prostate Cancer #1
BOSTON — A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office.

Boston scientists who invented the test and health care giant Johnson & Johnson will announce Monday that they are joining forces to bring it to market. Four big cancer centers also will start studies using the experimental test this year.

Stray cancer cells in the blood mean that a tumor has spread or is likely to, many doctors believe. A test that can capture such cells has the potential to transform care for many types of cancer, especially breast, prostate, colon and lung.

You can read the rest of this at:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40881967/ns/health-cancer

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  • mrspjd
    mrspjd Member Posts: 694 Member
    #2
    Kentr
    Kudos for spotting and thanks for posting this news release early in the morning yesterday, before others had a chance to read down the page and discover your thread/post. Will be interesting to see how this new test will surpass the currently available CTC (circulating tumor cell) test.
    Best.
  • Kentr
    Kentr Member Posts: 111
    #3
    mrspjd said:

    Kentr
    Kudos for spotting and thanks for posting this news release early in the morning yesterday, before others had a chance to read down the page and discover your thread/post. Will be interesting to see how this new test will surpass the currently available CTC (circulating tumor cell) test.
    Best.

    Liquid biopsy
    Maybe I'm too much of a "dreamer" but this whole possibility really impressed me. What I'm surprised about is that, based on the lack of comments, it doesn't seem to interest too many posters. Oh well, moving on.....
  • mrspjd
    mrspjd Member Posts: 694 Member
    #4
    Kentr said:

    Liquid biopsy
    Maybe I'm too much of a "dreamer" but this whole possibility really impressed me. What I'm surprised about is that, based on the lack of comments, it doesn't seem to interest too many posters. Oh well, moving on.....

    Kentr
    Don't be disheartened...another user posted the same info (with article text) under a different thread title, later that same day as your initial post (which explains my kudos to you for spotting the info early in the am), but that thread also rec'd only a few comments. Perhaps its just too new and still in the experimental stage but, the info does present promising possibilities nonetheless.

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