Advances in oral cancer detection
Researchers have a portable test kit for diagnosing an early diagnostic method, simple and effective oral cancer type.
He himself is a kind of “lab on a chip” that so far has only shown efficacy in cell lines, but with support and funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the U.S..
Until now, patients had to undergo an uncomfortable biopsy tissue of the mouth and wait several days to get results.
This new method is able to yield reliable results within 10 minutes.
The test is designed to measure levels of a protein called EGFR receptor (epidermal growth factor).
It is present on the surface of all cells, but their levels rise abnormally in the case of malignant cells.
Anyway, is believed to still take months to make the transition from cell lines to patients of meat and bone, as noted in their work, have a much greater heterogeneity of cells in your saliva.