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Fluorescent molecules in urine can help monitor malignant melanoma – News-Medical.net
What if you could simply provide a urine sample rather than undergo a painful surgical procedure to find out if your cancer was responding to treatment? It may seem too good to be true, but researchers at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia, ha…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 11 2020
What if you could simply provide a urine sample rather than undergo a painful surgical procedure to find out if your cancer was responding to treatment? It may seem too good to be true, but researchers at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia, have identified fluorescent molecules in urine that may allow patients with malignant melanoma to do just that.
Tracking cancer progression is important as it allows doctors to see if someone is …
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