Nus Scientists a Step Closer to Developing Blood Test to Monitor Status of Cancer and Treatment Outcome
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 03:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists from the National University of Singaporehave developed a novel technique to efficiently culture clusters containing circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in 14 days that could be used to predict the outcome of cancer treatment as well as monitor the status of cancer. Using the technique, the team achieved a success rate of more than 60 per cent in culturing CTCs from patients with metastatic breast cancer, the highest known success record to-date. This breakthrough brings researchers a step closer towards enabling personalised cancer treatment and monitoring.