At-Home Solution REVOLUTIONIZES Cancer Fight
If you’re familiar with pancreatic cancer, you know the prognosis is grim.
The 5-year survival rate is only 11 percent.
One of the main reasons for this terrible survival rate is that this type of cancer is difficult to detect. So, by the time it’s found, it’s usually too far advanced to do anything about.
But there’s FINALLY a bright spot of hope for defeating this killer. A simple solution you will be able to use at home.
And it’s not just pancreatic cancer that could be conquered. We may get a leg up on OTHER deadly cancers too.
Urine can be tested to determine many things, good or bad: pregnancy, drug use, and sugar levels.
Now researchers say we might be able to add cancer testing to the list.
When you have cancer, your urine contains metabolites that are different from normal urine.
The metabolites are released by cancer cells to promote cancer growth. We’ve known about their existence for YEARS now. We just haven’t been able to capitalize on their presence before now.
But Korean scientists have now developed a revolutionary way to use a light-scattering technique to detect these metabolites.
It’s like identifying a chemical cancer fingerprint.
They haven’t YET been able to pinpoint the specific types of cancers. But incredibly, they’ve detected cancer at various stages with 99 percent accuracy!
Once the new testing technique is refined, it will provide the earliest form of testing possible.
And that, of course, will give you a FAR earlier jump on treating any cancer, raising your chances of defeating it.
However, in an even more exciting development, scientists are currently working on a test that could differentiate four potentially deadly cancers:
- pancreatic
- prostate
- lung
- colorectal
Researchers are especially excited about the possibility of detecting prostate cancer early since the PSA test is notoriously unreliable. And I am, too.
But I’m also incredibly excited about one day soon having the ability to detect pancreatic cancer early because of its poor survival rate and colorectal cancer because of how quickly the rates are rising.
The test isn’t available to the public yet. But the goal is to develop easy-to-use at-home tests.
In the meantime, I’ll celebrate any step in the right direction. And this IS one worth celebrating.
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SOURCE:
“3D plasmonic coral nanoarchitecture paper for label-free human urine sensing and deep learning-assisted cancer screening,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Volume 224, 15 March 2023, 115076
