New technology to help diagnose breast cancer by urine

Recently, published in the international journal BMC Cancer research paper, the researchers from the University of Freiburg by the research and development of a new technology, which can analyze the urine sample to help detect breast cancer, this method can determining the level of microRNAs molecules that regulate cell metabolism, which is usually offset levels of microRNAs in cancer cells; by determining the composition of the urine microRNAs, researchers can make the success rate of this technique diagnosis of breast cancer is 91%.

The world there are about 1.7 million women suffering from breast cancer, while breast cancer is one of the common female cancer, the disease will cause more than 52 million deaths each year, but until now researchers have generally through breast x-ray tomography or ultrasound Check to make diagnosis of breast cancer tissue, but due to exposure to radiation exposure of breast tissue will usually make a lot of patients with recurrent disease.

In this paper, the researchers developed the new technique by using urine samples can be checked for breast cancer, the technology has changed based on patient metabolism, researchers urine of nine kinds of microRNAs determine the concentration of molecules, and molecules microRNAs You can regulate the metabolism of cells, compared to healthy samples and disease samples, the researchers found that there are four kinds of microRNAs levels showed significant differences.

Professor Stickeler noted that the urine of patients with breast cancer microRNA characteristics can be specifically modified so microRNAs, or can help us with breast cancer screening, and of course with the help of microRNA characteristics under study to develop technology also has 91% diagnostic accuracy. Currently researchers have patented the technology, they encourage more women to take advantage of this new technology for the early diagnosis of breast cancer, after making a diagnosis, the patient's malignant tissue will be removed by surgery, not as Over the past doctors would remove the entire breast tissue of a patient, the late researcher hopes more research is needed to optimize the improvement of this new technology so that it can be better for human health services.
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