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Blood Test Alone Detects Breast Cancer

  • August 19, 2004

In an amazing feat of scientific synchronicity, researchers in the U.S. and Canada have developed separate techniques to pinpoint elusive tumor cells from a thimbleful of drawn blood, a feat that may help predict the severity of a patient's cancer without biopsy or bone scan. Both projects found that the greater the number of tumor cells collected in a sample, the more dangerous the disease appeared to be. The results are expected to give doctors a relatively painless tool to help...