Blood test to detect tumors in development.

[William Gaatjes]

The goal is to create a huge database that all hospitals over the world can use.

Researchers at the Cancer Center Amsterdam (CCA) of VU University Medical Center have developed a groundbreaking technique that can detect cancer at an early stage in a drop of blood. Researcher Professor Tom Würdinger of the CCA:.. "It is important to identify cancer as early as possible and treat. The new technique with which we "read" cancer of the blood that play a major role in and hopefully save lives. "It is still in an experimental phase. Würdinger expected within five years to have the test available for the first patients. The discovery is published today by researchers in the prestigious scientific journal Cancer Cell.

Platelets
The research group of Tom Würdinger discovered that platelets of cancer patients RNA (copies of parts of the DNA) contain the tumor. Platelets normally ensure the coagulation of the blood, but recent research shows that platelets also play an important role in tumor growth and metastasis of cancer. The platelets of patients with cancer contain unique RNA-patterns which make it possible to distinguish between healthy individuals of cancer patients with a certainty of 96%.

A pdf with detailed information can be found here as well.
Read it all here in the phage virus thread in ATHT :



http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=37802464&postcount=286

 

[Muse]

Sounds like a huge step forward to me.

 

[IGBT]

96%..that's amazing.

 

[Strk]

Phage virus is redundant

K, done being pedantic, but that sounds awesome. I know it would be great for every cancer, but that would be especially awesome for the ones that have horrific survivability stats simply because they show no symptoms until they've only got a month or two to live.

 

[John Connor]

Interesting.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Hmm, so why are we posting this? What is the intent? I go anonymously donate a blood sample, its in a database,m and at some future point I develop cancer, which is later matched against the anonymous donation to cancel my insurance.

Paranoia enabled.

 

[Linux23]

Hmm, so why are we posting this? What is the intent? I go anonymously donate a blood sample, its in a database,m and at some future point I develop cancer, which is later matched against the anonymous donation to cancel my insurance.

Paranoia enabled.

What?

 

[Muse]

Hmm, so why are we posting this? What is the intent? I go anonymously donate a blood sample, its in a database,m and at some future point I develop cancer, which is later matched against the anonymous donation to cancel my insurance.

Paranoia enabled.

Yeah, this doesn't make sense to me. Anyway, it's self contradictory. AFAIK there's not such thing as "anonymously donate a blood sample." And if there were, there could be no effect on insurance.

If you have a predilection toward paranoia, you should self-reevaluate.