Compendium of pancreatic cancer biomarkers established as strategic approach to early-detection
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 19:49
in Health & Medicine
A cancer scientist from Johns Hopkins has convinced an international group of colleagues to delay their race to find new cancer biomarkers and instead begin a 7,000-hour slog through a compendium of 50,000 scientific articles already published to assemble, decode and analyze the molecules that might herald the furtive presence of pancreatic cancer.