All cancers produce compounds that end up in the bloodstream , so these markers in the blood could form the basis of an early detection test for many different types of cancer. Kingdom) by Cancer Research UK .
Scientists have identified more than 800 markers in the blood of cancer patients. According to the work, it is “a new approach to early detection and it is the first time that a systematic examination on the subject has been carried out. A single blood-based screening test would be a one-third change for early detection of cancer, which could help make it a curable disease for many more patients, ”says study leader Ian Cree.
A total of 19,000 scientific articles were studied for this research, the result of which found more than 800 markers in the blood. Now, even though all of these biomarkers are relevant, experts hope to discover which ones work best for cancer detection, to make this process much faster and more reliable .
The importance of this discovery is that cancer cells create markers in the blood long before the signs or symptoms of cancer begin and long before the tumor begins to appear , so that early diagnosis thanks to this future analysis could also ensure that 3 out of 4 cancer patients survive at least 10 years after being diagnosed.
“Although in its early stages, this study shows how a greater understanding of cancer markers and new technologies are combining to offer new opportunities to detect cancer much earlier, ” says Sara Hiom of Cancer Research UK .
