The most deadly aspect of breast cancer is metastasis, cancer cells spreading throughout the body. Researchers at the University and the University Hospital of Basel have now discovered a substance that suppresses the formation of metastases. In the journal Cell, the team of molecular biologists, computational biologists and clinicians reports on their interdisciplinary approach. The image represents an artistic coloration of...
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Prostate cancer: New, quicker test to assess metastasis risk
People with prostate cancer are at risk of metastatic tumors forming. A newly developed test can assess this risk more quickly than existing tests and is also cheaper to run. According to the National Cancer Institute, about 11.2 percent of men will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis at some point in time. In 2015 — the...
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Faster, cheaper test can help predict risk of metastasis in prostate cancer patients
The Next-Generation Copy Number Alteration (NG-CNA) assay can analyze small amounts of material to estimate metastatic risk, reports The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics ELSEVIER Philadelphia, December 12, 2018 – For men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer or patients previously treated, the risk of metastasis is a crucial determinant of whether to choose conservative management or...