Groundbreaking New Blood Test Offers Early Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis Study Says
LONG BEACH, Calif. – As reported in today’s issue of the journal Metabolites, researchers at Metabolomycs, a California-based biotechnology company, for the first time applied targeted mass spectrometry to show that pancreatic cancer arises through changes in cellular metabolism and that these changes can be measured with a simple blood test.
The results could provide highly accurate pancreatic cancer diagnoses earlier than tumor markers or radiographic measures, potentially ushering in a quicker, more judicious use of therapy. By comparison, genomic approaches measuring DNA for early detection continue to suffer from false positives and false negatives.
“Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of death from cancer largely because it is rarely caught early,” said Dr. Robert Nagour...