Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
Researchers have developed nanosensors that can detect signs of cancer in blood.Credit: Maskot/GettyResearchers have developed a simple blood test to detect pancreatic cancer before it spreads to other sites in the body. The test could be used for routine screening to improve the disease’s low survival rate1.“It’s a very pragmatic, really translatable solution,” that builds on many advances in the field, says Simone Schürle-Finke, a biomedical engineer at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (E...
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