Nanosensors For Early Cancer Detection
Summary
Ovarian cancer is very difficult to detect, and when it is found, it is usually too late for a doctor to make a successful intervention. If ovarian cancer can be detected in stage one, its earliest stage, it will improve the survival rate from 10% to 90%.
In order to do this, and to detect other kinds of cancers in its earliest stages as well, Stanford University is working on nanosensor technology. This technology is a thousand times more sensitive than the current standard of care, and doctors will be able to look at more than one tumor marker, in fact they will be able to look at a whole panel of tumor markers, and thus diagnose cancer earlier, and see whether or not the cancer treatment is working.
Keywords: nanosensors, Stanford university, cancer detection, Richard Gaster, tumor markers, bio sensors, Shan Wang
