Research discovery leads to potential diagnostic for assessing breast cancer recurrence
Thursday, September 17, 2015 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Every woman successfully treated for breast cancer lives with the knowledge that it could come back. New research may lead to a simple blood test to determine the risk of such recurrence, or the cancer invading other organs such as the lungs, bone or brain. Such a test would have profound implications for improving the future treatment of women with all types of breast cancer.