THE UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN IMAGE: BENEDICTE SJO TISLEVOLL. PHOTO: JØRGEN BARTH, UIB CREDIT: PHOTO: JØRGEN BARTH, UIB Researchers from the University of Bergen, Norway, has found a new method that within hours can predict if certain cancer patients will survive or not after chemotherapy. Acute myeloid leukemia is an aggressive blood cancer with poor survival. Although...
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A simple blood sample indicates how serious a head trauma is
by Örebro Universitet The study setting. Black color denotes TBI patients and white color denotes reference patients. The TBI patients were from all three severity groups (mild, moderate, severe) and the reference patients were from three injury types: internal medicine, orthopedic, and neurological (blue box). The main analysis for severity discrimination was on patients for...
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Prostate cancer ‘fingerprint’ detected in blood sample
by University College London Scientists at UCL have invented a new test to identify the earliest genetic changes of prostate cancer in blood: a process which could allow doctors to see if cancers have spread, monitor tumour behaviour and enable better treatment selection. In the study, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at...