A Proactive Way to Detect Cancer at Its Earliest Stages

  • 📰 WIRED
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 34 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 17%
  • Publisher: 51%

Health Health Headlines News

Health Health Latest News,Health Health Headlines

“I was diagnosed fairly late with cancer, and that to me was the biggest problem. If somebody would just get this very early, it would have to be an advantage for the people trying to treat you.”

German-American entrepreneur Cyriac Roeding read a profile of Sam Gambhir, a physician and scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, in a magazine. In the article, Gambhir described how he had devoted his career to early cancer detection, only to lose his teenage son Milan to a highly aggressive brain tumor in 2015.

One day, Gambhir pitched his own idea—a poignant one. “Sam asked a simple but profound question,” Roeding remembers. “He said, ‘What if we stopped searching for cancer altogether; what if we didn’t look anymore? What if, instead, we forced the cancer to reveal itself?’” Earli’s approach essentially forces the cancer to reveal itself. Bioengineered DNA is injected into the body; when it enters cancer cells, it forces them to produce a synthetic biomarker not normally found in humans—something like limonene, a chemical found in the peel of citrus fruits. If subsequent breath or blood tests find traces of that biomarker, it could be a sign of cancer.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

I don’t know, early, late, it seems to me death is invariably certain within at best a handful of years. Those years defined of cancer identity and lifestyle. I will never be treated for cancer.

100$ says this will lead to over diagnosis and no overall survival benefit.

👌🏼

So they can program tumors to produce bio markers, if only they could program them to self destruct.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 555. in HEALTH

Health Health Latest News, Health Health Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Machine learning fusion prototype could potentially help detect ovarian cancerThe study is the first to use ultrasound to improve the machine learning performance of photoacoustic tomography reconstruction for cancer diagnosis.
Source: IntEngineering - 🏆 287. / 63 Read more »

Cancer Weakness Discovered: New Method Pushes Cancer Cells Into RemissionCancer cells delete DNA when they go to the dark side, so a team of doctors and engineers targeted the 'backup plans' that run essential cell functions. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Indiana University have discovered a cancer weakness. They found that the way that tumor cells ena
Source: SciTechDaily1 - 🏆 84. / 68 Read more »

Lung Cancer Is a Women’s Health Crisis. It’s Time the U.S. Starts Acting Like It.Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer of women in the U.S., killing more women than breast, ovarian and cervical cancer combined. Is research into women's lung cancer so underfunded and neglected b/c people think you have to smoke to get lung cancer (a complete falsehood)? Why is this area so neglected? Wow, just had a woman friend pass away from lung cancer at age 47. RepresentPledge Read 'Invisible Women' by Caroline Criado Perez for more on this topic. Most illuminating and infuriating.
Source: MsMagazine - 🏆 378. / 59 Read more »

Brazil soccer legend Pele hospitalized amid cancer battle; 'no emergency,' daughter saysBrazilian soccer legend Pele has been hospitalized as he battles cancer, his daughter said on social media on Wednesday, adding that there was 'no surprise or emergency' involved. GOD BLESS YOU..SIR PELE..
Source: Reuters - 🏆 2. / 97 Read more »