Researchers are working to use bodily fluids to noninvasively detect breast cancer sooner.
FILE - Blood samples await shipment at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., March 18, 2015. Danielle Whitham, one such researcher at Clarkson University in New York, said their work could also help women too young to get regular
“Ultimately, it could mean that you could be screened even when you're younger for breast cancer, and it could hopefully mean that we'd be able to find it earlier ,” she said.They hope to use those cancer-related proteins to create a biomarker panel that doctors can use to detect breast cancer earlier, leading to better outcomes for patients.
While breast milk obviously can only be collected from a select group of women, those who are pregnant or recently had a baby, the serum can be collected and analyzed for all women. “You draw blood, and then you allow the blood to clot,” she described. “And then when you spin that in a centrifuge at a very high speed, what gets separated is the serum.”
Clarkson’s research has been going on for years, and Whitham said she’s hopeful it will lead to better health care for everyday women over the next decade or so.Down the line, they’ll need to undertake a large cohort study to gain more robust results.
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