Promising progress in early cancer detection
A team of scientists from Oxford University discovered a series proteins in the blood that “can warn people about cancer more than seven years before it is diagnosed”. Thus, after conducting two studies, experts were able to find a total of 618 proteins associated with 19 different types of cancer.
Of the 618 proteins, 107 were detected in several blood tests performed, the scientists said. seven years before patients were diagnosed with cancer. They even believe that “these squirrels “may be involved in the earliest stages of cancer”. That’s why researchers plan to use these proteins to detect cancer much earlier than is possible today.
To develop the first study, scientists analyzed 44,000 blood samples from the UK Biobank, of which 4,900 people were diagnosed with cancer. They then examined 1,463 proteins to determine which were associated with disease and which were not. In the second study, experts analyzed genetic data from 300,000 cancer cases and found 40 proteins in the blood that affect the risk of contracting 9 different types of cancer.
Progress in cancer detection
After conducting both studies, the researchers concluded that if further studies were conducted, In the future, this “could help treat the disease at a much earlier stage or prevent it entirely.” But to do this, “more research needs to be done to determine the exact role of these proteins in cancer development.”
Dr Keren Papier, senior nutrition epidemiologist at Oxford Population Health and first author of one of the original studies, said they understood “How proteins in our blood can influence the risk of developing cancer. “Now we need to look deeper into these proteins to see which ones can be used for prevention.”
Along with Dr Papier, Dr Joshua Atkins, a senior genomic epidemiologist at the Oxford Health Center and co-author, says that “the genes we are born with, and the proteins that make them up, “They have a big impact on how cancer starts and grows.”
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