RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING OFFICE-BASED CANCER SCREENING TEST

Patients go to see their doctors for answers, but when it comes to cancer, physicians admit they need better tests to detect the earliest cancers. While certain tests can indicate the possibility of prostate cancer or cervical cancer, a simple office-based test to monitor patients for cancer currently is not available to doctors and their patients. Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are out to change that, thanks to a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The grant will go towards identifying proteins in human urine, known as biomarkers. The presence of specific biomarkers could indicate the presence of cancer or other diseases.

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