'Barcode' blood test for aggressive prostate cancer developed

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 09:31 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have designed a blood test that reads genetic changes like a barcode -- and can pick out aggressive prostate cancers by their particular pattern of gene activity. A research team found reading the pattern of genes switched on and off in blood cells could accurately detect which advanced prostate cancers had the worst survival.

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