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Scientists develop ultra-sensitive test that detects diseases in their earliest stages

Scientists have developed an ultra-sensitive test that should enable them to detect signs of a disease in its earliest stages, in research published today in the journal Nature Materials.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

HPV test beats Pap for cervical cancer screening

Two big studies suggest possible new ways to screen healthy people for cervical or prostate cancers, but a third disappointed those hoping for a way to detect early signs of deadly ovarian tumors.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Study: Gene markers may aid prostate cancer test

Scientists have taken a first step toward improving those problematic PSA tests for prostate cancer, by mixing in some genetic information that might help tell which men really need a biopsy.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blood test accurately predicts death from prostate cancer up to 25 years in advance

A blood test at the age of 60 can accurately predict the risk that a man will die from prostate cancer within the next 25 years, according to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, and Lund University, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Dogs can potentially sniff out prostate cancer, French researchers say

Man's best friend may cement his position if early results from French researchers can be replicated. A team of researchers from Tenon Hospital in Paris reported Tuesday at a San Francisco meeting of the American Urological ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Detecting the Undetectable in Prostate Cancer Testing

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive nanotechnology-based tool known as the biobarcode system, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Detecting the undetectable in prostate cancer screening

A team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive tool based on nanotechnology, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in patients who have undergone radical ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Faster diagnostics through cheap, ultra-portable blood testing

Blood tests are important diagnostic tools. They accurately tease-out vanishingly small concentrations of proteins and other molecules that help give a picture of overall health or signal the presence of specific ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

PSA test for men could get a second life for breast cancer in women

The widely known PSA blood test for prostate cancer in men may get a second life as a much-needed new test for breast cancer, the most common form of cancer in women worldwide, scientists are reporting in a new study in the ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

PSA test better predicts cancer in men taking prostate-shrinking drug

The PSA screening test for prostate cancer is not perfect. It can indicate cancer when none is present and miss life-threatening tumors. But a new study suggests the test is more reliable in men taking dutasteride (Avodart®), ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brothers of prostate cancer patients undergo more diagnostic activities

The brothers of men with prostate cancer are at an increased risk of prostate cancer diagnosis because of increased diagnostic activity and not necessarily because they carry a genetic mutation that increases risk of the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanoparticle PSA test predicts if prostate cancer will return

Men who have just had their cancerous prostate gland removed have one pressing question for their doctors: Am I cured? But conventional tests haven't been sensitive enough to provide a concrete answer. Current tests that ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating

(AP) -- Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans - maybe even President Barack Obama - are being overtreated.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 12, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Cancer society casts more doubt on prostate tests

(AP) -- Months after experts discounted the importance of routine mammograms and Pap smears for many women, the American Cancer Society is warning more explicitly than ever that regular testing for prostate ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Doctors urge baseline test for prostate cancer

(AP) -- An influential doctors group is backing off its call for annual tests after age 50 to screen for prostate cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1