A new method for measuring cancer: 10 ml blood come out ahead five years the "notice" cancer

United Kingdom and United States researchers said that after 15 years of efforts, they finally found you can forecast a new method of solid tumors, five years earlier notice "cancer".

The research results next week in the United States was held in Chicago, United States society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting announcement.

"Forecasting" method

Nottingham, UK researchers with Oncimmune company of 8 000 United Kingdom and United States case, want to find out the human immune system against cancer formation of the first molecular signals how to react.

They discovered that cancer cells would allow to produce a small amount of Antigen activation of the immune system to produce large amounts of autoantibodies.

By tracing the body changes, researchers identify different Antigen and the relationships between different cancers, and developed only need 10 ml of blood can "forecast," a new method of cancer.

United Kingdom the times Web site on June 1, quoted in charge of research, breast cancer expert John · Robertson case report: study shows that the doctor simply through a simple test can accurately identify the antigen-induced antibodies as well as the cancer it represents.

He said that this technology will help diagnose 90 per cent of solid tumors.

Mode change

Robertson said that currently, people usually appear in the body is going to a doctor, the doctor needs through electronic devices to find cancer lesions, but it often is too late.

For example, lung cancer, patients appear unwell seek medical treatment, cancer or even already may grow to tennis. Similar to pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, cancer, and is usually diagnosed at late stage.

This is a simple blood test can help patients earlier confirmed that improve survival rates.

"We begin to understand previously never know cancer process, find out how the immune system's reaction — just look at what kind of protein is wrong," Robertson said, "it's like tumor formation in the former, your body will cry: ' I have cancer! '"

Robertson says, this new test methods for cancer diagnosis has brought the "paradigm shift".

Need to test

Currently, the United States of respiratory specialists and family physicians are smokers who study this test, it is expected that this month is applied to the clinic.

Oncimmune CEO Jeffrey · Hamilton-Fairlie said, the United Kingdom may next year earlier in private clinics use this blood test method, the two countries examine the costs of similar, is approximately US $ 480.

United Kingdom National Cancer Institute leader Mike · Richards praised the results of this study is "a very exciting concept," may increase the survival rate of cancer patients in the United Kingdom.

However, he also said that, in the national health service (NHS) formally accepted this approach, you also need to carry out large-scale clinical trials.

"Now that the detection methods will quickly (in private clinics), we have to consider conducting extensive tests to demonstrate that it can be just as we hoped it would save lives.

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