Specialists have managed to develop a unique blood test that will help diagnose breast cancer about five years before the patient has the first symptoms, according to Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35.. net In the near future, the authors of the work plan to conduct additional experiments that should confirm the effectiveness of the analysis. If the experiment goes well, then in four years the novelty will be able to replace such a type of oncology diagnostics as a mammogram..

The authors of the scientific work were specialists from the University of Nottingham. 180 representatives of the fair sex took part in their experiment..

Scientists plan to conduct additional tests, but with the participation of 800 women, in order to increase the accuracy of the developed analysis..

At the moment, the test has detected early symptoms of breast cancer in 37 percent of cases and ruled out in 79 percent of cases, the authors add..

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