Researchers have discovered a new way to examine the blood cells that spread cancer , in addition to the possibility of using this method to predict who Sieodh cancer after treatment. Chose a team of Harvard Medical School and Hospital, Massachusetts twenty men from prostate cancer to experience a test that can detect two hundred cancer cell spread by the amount of blood the size of a teaspoon taken from the patient's cancer.
The researchers discovered the presence of cancerous cells scattered low-grade in patients with tumors that have not spread, and in patients who are still of the prostate gland three months ago.
Said Najrat , who oversaw the study from Harvard " usually do not expect the presence of cancerous cells spread in these patients , but this test has given us a tremendous amount of information about the extent of their exposure to risk ."
And added Najrat - at a news conference at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research - that her team will follow patients to see whether the tumors returned to those who have cancer cells spread .
She said it would be important to follow the men to see their condition, and also added that the test may be useful for monitoring patients with the so-called targeted therapies that affect cancer cells with certain specific genetic mutations .
This test will have in the future of great importance where it will serve as a blood test to detect prostate cancer , in addition to tests " anti - prostate specific " you are looking for a protein secreted only by prostate cells and which can indicate cancer.
Prostate cancer is the most lethal men after lung cancer , but it is often slow - growing disease , and there is no confirmation of the doctors on who the men who have the most deadly types and are more likely to spread or return ?
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