Health Buzz: Cancer Blood Test Moves Forward

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hollytores of TX 12:41AM January 05, 2011

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stealing hope of NY 3:00PM January 04, 2011

Hmm. Is this test able to detect WHERE the cancer is? And if it is that extraordinarily sensitive, is it possible that it might detect a few cells decades before they are likely to turn into something serious, leading to unnecessary and costly treatments? Is it also possible that that many of us carry some cancer cells in our bodies but that much of the time, we are biologically able to prevent them from multiplying? Recent articles have suggested that some women are made to undergo treatment for breast cancer when the abnormalities detected in mammograms probably do not indicate that they actually have cancer or are even likely to develop it. The articles on this test I've seen over the past couple of days haven't contained enough information to assure me that it won't result in similar problems.

Eleonora27 of IL 2:39PM January 04, 2011