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Analyzing short strands of cell-free DNA in urine could help detect early-stage cancer – News-Medical.net
Urinalysis has long been a staple of physical exams to detect and manage a number of diseases and disorders, but not cancer.
Urinalysis has long been a staple of physical exams to detect and manage a number of diseases and disorders, but not cancer. What if it were that easy, though, and cancer was detected in its very earliest stages when the disease responds more favorably to treatment and improved outcomes are more likely?
That was the question posed by scientists at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, who have found a way of zeroing in on early-stage cancer by analyzing…
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