Researchers at the National Institutes of Health in the UK have proposed a plasma blood marker called KIM-1 for early detection of kidney cancer, Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35, reports.. net Potential kidney cancer is detected using this marker in a blood test. The study was published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.. The results show that elevated levels of the KIM-1 marker in the blood of patients with high accuracy predicted those who would develop kidney cancer in the next five years..

Later, the head of the research team Venkata Sabbisetti and his colleagues measured the content of the KIM-1 marker in blood samples from patients included in the European Study on Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) program.. The team compared the levels of the marker in the analyzes of 190 participants who were suspected of having cancer with 190 eligible participants of the same age, weight, and bad habits who were healthy.. In the first group of people, the percentage of the marker in the blood was twice as high..

Venkata Sabbisetti said that there is a very high mortality among patients in whom kidney cancer progresses. At the same time, the conducted experiments show that, with some refinement, the KIM-1 marker can be an effective means of early detection of kidney cancer, which at this stage can be cured.. Long before a conventional diagnosis is established, a blood test using the KIM-1 marker will reveal potential kidney cancer.

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