Sentences with phrase «need for early cancer detection»

The most important point, he said, is the need for early cancer detection — something that medicine now is «very bad» at.

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«There is a tremendous unmet clinical need for better non-invasive screening tools for early detection of prostate cancer to reduce the overtreatment and morbidity of this disease,» added Dr. Patel.

Methods for detecting tumor cells and DNA circulating in bodily fluids are currently under intense investigation for early detection and cancer diagnostics; however, no existing technology meets the high sensitivity and specificity requirements needed to attain these goals.

Neuroblastoma for example, sometimes we see these in stage four, very advanced disease, but a bigger question that we really need to understand is why very early cancers sometimes progress and sometimes don't and as our detection...

We need to accelerate the pace at which we develop an early detection blood test for pancreatic cancer and more effective therapies.

Using dogs for early cancer detection is not an accepted method of screening, however, and likely won't be, because dogs are harder to control, cost a lot to care for, and need training, the article said.