Breast cancer diagnosis with blood test

According to the report of the World Health Organization, more than 600,000 women around the world are diagnosed with breast cancer every year... Early detection of breast cancer can lead to a reduction in mortality.... Recently, German doctors said that they have invented a method to diagnose breast cancer with a blood test..

How was the breast cancer blood test discovered? Breast cancer is the most common disease among women in industrialized countries and the most common type of cancer among women worldwide, but if the cancerous mass is detected in the early stages of development, the probability of the patient's recovery is 95%. Researchers at the University of Heidelberg, one of Germany's oldest universities, have developed a test that can determine whether a patient has breast cancer. The lead author of the study told German newspaper Bild that a method called Hiscreen can detect breast cancer through a blood test even before cancerous lumps are visible to current imaging technologies such as mammography. This new blood test can help detect breast cancer in the early stages of development... Researchers at the University of Heidelberg in Germany say that a new blood test will be launched this year... According to the researchers, this blood test can detect breast cancer as ultrasound, MRI and mammography have done so far.

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### Does breast cancer blood test replace traditional breast cancer diagnosis?Professor Christoph Zohn's research team from the Women's Clinic of the University of Heidelberg presented the test on February 21, 2019 at a congress at the Federal Academy of Women in Dusseldorf... but they say the test still does not replace previous breast cancer detection methods.... The most important function of this blood test is to help diagnose breast cancer in the early stages of development. ### How does this blood test for breast cancer compare to mammography? Currently, mammography, MRI, and clinical examinations are used in breast cancer screening... but these methods may have risks such as false positive results, false negative results, and exposure to radiation, as well as causing pain and discomfort to patients. One of the researchers said: "The results of the test are as reliable as mammograms, but they cost less and do not expose the patient to radiation or pain." In a study conducted by the University of Heidelberg in Germany, 75 percent of 500 breast cancer patients were correctly diagnosed, but researchers said the method was much more accurate for people under 50. The basis of this new blood test is a method called "liquid biopsy" or "liquid biopsy", which is not a new method. In November 2018, a team of researchers from England, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands and Spain presented a study based on which there are different possibilities for detecting cancer through blood tests. to mammography because the accuracy of mammography is 78%.

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### When will this blood test be available? German researchers hope to launch new blood test in 2019... They tested more than 900 women in the past 12 months, 500 of whom had breast cancer.... This study is ongoing and is expected to include 2000 cancer patients. ### Does this blood test detect other cancers? Researchers hope to detect other types of cancer, such as ovarian cancer, in the early stages through biopsy, and probably in the future it will be easier to detect metastases, or the spread of cancer cells from one tissue to another. To book an appointment with Dr. Atla Rasouli, a specialist in general surgery and a specialist in cancer surgery, you can visit our contact section.