DNA Blood Test for Colon Cancer
Dreading your next colonoscopy? Someday, we’ll be able to screen for cancer using non-invasive blood tests (or as non-invasive as you can get with a needle prick).
Bert Vogelsten and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University have developed a blood test that can detect elevated levels of mutated adenomatous polyposis coli gene (APC). The blood tests effectively detected the gene in patients with advanced-stage colorectal cancers and in more than 60 percent of patients with early-stage cancers.
Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to conquering cancer. Don’t delay in getting screened even if it is via something as invasive as colonoscopy.
Science Daily, October 24, 2005
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3 opinions for DNA Blood Test for Colon Cancer
Deb
Oct 25, 2005 at 1:45 pm
This is an awesome medical advance!!!
Lei
Oct 25, 2005 at 9:06 pm
Hi Deb! Thanks for the comment. I know people who are deathly afraid of needles, but I suspect they’d still rather have a blood test than a colonoscopy.
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Dec 19, 2005 at 5:28 am
[…] Earlier this year, Dr. Bert Volgestein at Johns Hopkins developed a blood test that can detect elevated levels of mutated adenomatous polyposis coli gene (APC). […]
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