Sep 17 2007

Pancreatic cancer diagnosis

Published by DaughterSK at 5:29 pm under Cancer, Cancer prevention, Health, Pancreatic Cancer

It seems that there is now a way of detecting pancreatic cancer in an early stage without having to do a biopsy of the pancreas! Read more here.

It’s based on light and it could be helpful for people who have a high risk factor of getting pancreatic cancer. In other words: for you and me, it’s again no miracle diagnosis.

People with high risk of getting pancreatic cancer can now undergo a routine endoscopic biopsy of the duodenum: the upper part of the small intestine just behind your stomach.

When an early-stage pancreatic cancer is present, cells in the duodenum give off different light-scattering effects in this new test.

Seems we are still far from a real practical test and still nobody is talking about cancer prevention :-(


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