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“CancerSEEK: Blood Test That Detects Eight Common Cancers”
Alexander M. Castellino, PhD
January 18, 2018
A new blood test, dubbed CancerSEEK, can identify eight common cancers ― ovary, liver, esophagus, pancreas, stomach, colorectal, lung, and breast cancer ― say researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
The new test measures circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from 16 genes as well as eight protein biomarkers, and then uses machine-based learning to analyze the data.
The use of a combination of selected biomarkers for early detection has the potential to change the way we screen for cancer, and it is based on the same rationale for using combinations of drugs to treat cancers,” said Nickolas Papadopoulos, PhD, senior author and professor of oncology and pathology, in a statement.
In the future, the blood test could be used to detect cancers “early enough that they could be cured by surgery alone, but even cancers that are not curable by surgery alone will respond better to systemic therapies when there is less advanced disease,” said one of the corresponding authors, Anne Marie Lennon, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, surgery, and radiology and clinical director of gastroenterology. “Earlier detection provides many ways to improve outcomes for patients,” she added.
The new test is described in a report published online January 18 in Science.[…]
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/891491
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How is SBOC involved in this new test? Thank you
$BIOC
Biocept is in the general competitive landscape; namely, liquid biopsy for cancers as well as other conditions.
I was referring to BIOC, not BOC as stated in your post.
$Ovarian Cancer. Wow, early detections would be a godsend for all cancers, especially Ovarian cancer (OC). Terrible disease that typically isn’t detected until late stages Phase III or IV. My wife passed from OC in Oct 2014. Was diagnosed as Stage IIIc in Sept 2011. If early detection was available back then,….
Thanks Helen,
Ed