A simple blood test could be used to detect breast cancer

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Published by University of Leicester Press Office for University of Leicester in Health and also in Education

A SIMPLE blood test could one day be a more accurate way to test for the early signs of breast cancer than using mammograms to spot a lump say researchers today (Tuesday), as Breast Cancer Awareness Month gets underway. They also hope the blood test could improve treatment by detecting whether breast cancer patients are likely to relapse and what drugs their particular type of tumour will respond to. This pioneering new clinical study – funded by Cancer Research UK in collaboration with the Univers...

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