New model establishes guidelines for earlier cancer detection
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 14:01
in Health & Medicine
Tumors can grow for 10 years or longer before currently available blood tests will detect them, a new mathematical model developed by Stanford University School of Medicine scientists indicates. The analysis, which was restricted to ovarian tumors but is broadly applicable across all solid tumor types, will be published online Nov. 16 in Science Translational Medicine.