Early Cancer Detection With Liquid Biopsy: New Method Lesser Invasive and More Promising

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Early cancer detection can lead to more successful treatment of the deadly disease as the new carbon nanotube semiconductor method emerges as an ideal way to cancer diagnoses. The new method depends on blood sample testing which is not invasive but quite simple and straight forward.

Carbon nanotube (CNT) semiconductors are used in a liquid biopsy for early detection of cancer cells that are circulating in the blood.  The method detects different types of cancer by taking a blood sample from the patient and detects genetic material from cancer cells or the cancer cells itself. This is much simpler and non-invasive as compared to surgical biopsy, Cancer Network reported.

 The new technology carbon nanotube (CNT) semiconductor is a promising technology that will increase the likelihood of early detection of cancer. A team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University carried the research and the results are published in the journal Nanotechnology.

The efficiency of this early cancer detection lies in the fact that it helps to diagnose cancer before a tumor is formed in the body and even before the cancer is metastasized. With just a blood test the doctors can make sure that person is in complete health or the cancer cells have started formulating. With this, many different sorts of cancer are treated easily and successfully since the sickness has not advanced.

A liquid biopsy can be performed through different methods by the likes of microfluidic liquid biopsies which captures cancer cells as the blood flows past the detector. Only a slow flow can help detect the cancer cells otherwise the cancer cells sweep past the detectors unnoticed, according to Forbes.

The new method is great news for cancer patients who are anxious about their health. This method helps them live healthier and longer with an early and easier treatment of possible cancer that has started developing in their body.