This invention aims to revolutionize the way in which diseases are detected and seeks to make it easier to make an early diagnosis to treatments more effective
A research team has succeeded in developing a test that detects cancer in ten minutes to just look a little saliva.
This invention, by a group of researchers from the University of California (EE. UU.), Aims to revolutionize the way in which diseases are detected and seeks to make it easier to make early diagnosis to treatments more effective, the newspaper the Telegraph.
If there are signs of a tumor in the blood or saliva of a person, this test will find (...) In the future, you might be able to detect multiple types of cancer at the same time, "according to the researchers.
So far, doctors needed blood tests and biopsies to see if a person had cancer. Now only it will take a little saliva to get the first results.
David Wong, professor of oncology at that university, says it is possible to detect the DNA of the tumor when it is circulating in body fluids: the method is known as liquid biopsy. The researcher argues that a single drop of saliva contains insufficient data to provide a definitive diagnosis of cancer.
"If there are signs of a tumor in the blood or saliva of a person, this test will find (...) In the future, might be able to detect multiple types of cancer at the same time," said Dr. Wong.
The innovative test is almost 100 percent accurate, non-invasive, and is so simple that could be made directly at home or in a doctor's office while the patient is waiting.
Also they promise to be cheap: the price will be around $ 20. However, it still has to go through clinical trials and the approval of the Food and Drug Administration US. UU., So do not expect for sale by 2020.
A research team has succeeded in developing a test that detects cancer in ten minutes to just look a little saliva.
This invention, by a group of researchers from the University of California (EE. UU.), Aims to revolutionize the way in which diseases are detected and seeks to make it easier to make early diagnosis to treatments more effective, the newspaper the Telegraph.
If there are signs of a tumor in the blood or saliva of a person, this test will find (...) In the future, you might be able to detect multiple types of cancer at the same time, "according to the researchers.
So far, doctors needed blood tests and biopsies to see if a person had cancer. Now only it will take a little saliva to get the first results.
David Wong, professor of oncology at that university, says it is possible to detect the DNA of the tumor when it is circulating in body fluids: the method is known as liquid biopsy. The researcher argues that a single drop of saliva contains insufficient data to provide a definitive diagnosis of cancer.
"If there are signs of a tumor in the blood or saliva of a person, this test will find (...) In the future, might be able to detect multiple types of cancer at the same time," said Dr. Wong.
The innovative test is almost 100 percent accurate, non-invasive, and is so simple that could be made directly at home or in a doctor's office while the patient is waiting.
Also they promise to be cheap: the price will be around $ 20. However, it still has to go through clinical trials and the approval of the Food and Drug Administration US. UU., So do not expect for sale by 2020.