Blood relations
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 09:52
in Health & Medicine
Despite many research advances, ovarian cancer remains lethal in a majority of cases, due to late diagnosis of the disease. In a new study, Dr Joshua LaBaer of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, along with Arturo Ramirez and Paul Lampe, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, used a novel method for identifying biomarkers - proteins in blood that can identify ovarian cancer before symptoms appear...