DOI: 10.1097/01.COT.0000324877.88218.9f

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Issn Print: 0276-2234

Publication Date: 2008/06/10


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Tests for Earlier Detection of Cancer in Development

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SAN DIEGO—Promising data in developing tests for the earlier identification of lung, head and neck, and bladder cancers were reported here at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.
In one study, researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center found that cells lining the mouth undergo molecular alterations similar to those in other parts of the airway and could be used as surrogate tissue to assess molecular damage to the lungs.
In a second study, DNA saliva analysis appeared to detect early signs of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
And other research from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggests that fallopian tube, rather than ovarian surface, cells are the probable site of origin of most cases of ovarian serous carcinoma, the most common type of ovarian cancer.
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