In a report published June 28 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the research team describes how these interventions reduced overuse of troponin and
other biomarker testing without compromising patient care.
Not exact matches
The focus of those hopes is the liquid biopsy: a
test that could detect and analyze a solid tumor from
biomarkers in the bloodstream or
other easily sampled body fluids, such as saliva.
These in turn depend on development of brain imaging
tests or
biomarkers that could be measured in the blood or
other body fluids to allow a diagnosis of the disease in living people.
«Our study linked a positive score in this
test with quicker spread to the brain, and importantly showed the factor we were measuring is providing information on patient outcome independently of
other biomarkers already measured in the clinic.
«Future research will focus on optimizing the candidate therapies discovered by our team in this study as well as developing
biomarkers that can be used to
test the efficacy of
other potentially promising drugs,» says Dr. Rothstein
If these results are confirmed and one or more of these FLT3 - targeted drugs become approved by the FDA,
testing for the FLT3
biomarker may eliminate the need for thousands of patients to undergo stem cell transplantation (each allogeneic transplant costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and place recipients at grave risk of infection and
other complications such as Graft vs. Host disease).
In fact, the new research suggests that
testing women for nCyclinE and
other biomarkers may help doctors determine which patients would benefit from progesterone supplementation.
I assess clients on an individual basis looking as dietary intake,
biomarkers including a complete thyroid panel with RT3 and assess
other nutrients related to thyroid function using Spectracell (that are easier to
test than iodine).