Wistar-led research team discovers genetic pattern that indicates early-stage lung cancer

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 11:00 in Health & Medicine

Wistar Institute researchers and collaborators from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University have identified immune system markers in the blood which indicate early-stage lung tumours in people at high risk for developing lung cancer. The findings, published online December 1 in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, could lead to a simple blood test to detect lung cancer in its earliest phases, when it can be most successfully treated...

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