Posted on 19/08/04
Researchers developing blood test to detect presence of breast cancer
The notion that doctors may one day be able to detect cancer as they do cholesterol, in mere drops of blood, is no longer a pipe dream.Researchers in Canada and the United States have developed separate techniques to pinpoint elusive tumour cells from a thimbleful of drawn blood, a feat that may help predict the severity of a patient's cancer without biopsy or bone scan.
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