Catch cancer as it spreads with a trap

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3038, 2015, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The trouble with cancer is it spreads--sometimes even before someone knows they are ill. A small implant that traps cancer cells as they migrate through the blood could make a lifesaving early-detection system. So far the idea has been tested in mice. If it translates to people, then the implant could be scanned for cancer cells while still inside the body--either by doctors, or one day perhaps just with a smartphone. Lonnie Shea of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor devised the approach along with Jacqueline Jeruss, a breast cancer surgeon. Jeruss had noticed how common it was for her patients' first symptom to be breathlessness--as the cancer had already spread to their lungs.