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Injecting Your Breasts with Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer

DocGratis — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:19:14 PST

It sounds like this is aimed more finding positive lymph nodes that something else. (it mentions "which in turn provides us with an accurate picture of the spread of cancerous cells.")

And while it might better than the current method of finding positive lymph nodes...
I doubt it will make much difference for the "specialist".
-signed the specialist.

@hikergirl: Yeah he is talking about Immunohistochemistry. The reason why thye are looking at HER2, is the same reason why it might no work for other markers.. HER2 is a surface antigen. This test is unlikely to work well in vivo on anything other than surface antigens...

DocGratis

Injecting Your Breasts with Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer

gaygeek — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:47:58 PST

Any non-invasive accurate cancer test is a good thing. Encourages people to get tested and the early the detection the better.

gaygeek

Injecting Your Breasts with Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer

hikergirl — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:29:05 PST

Brown dyes? (he's likely talking about immunohistochemistry). That said, that's a very cool development. It's good for HER2 positive tumours but I would imagine they are looking for other markers for other tumour types.

hikergirl

Injecting Your Breasts with Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer

nymphy1 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:28:07 PST

Puns aside, thanks for the amazing news...I'm hoping that breast cancer treatment makes huge leaps in the next few years since my mom had a double mastectomy. They can save your life if they catch it in time, but I don't want to lose my breasts. Taking a woman's breasts away to spite her cancer seems really primitive to me.

nymphy1

Injecting Your Breasts with Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer

92BuickLeSabre — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:16:30 PST

Magic indeed; this is the breast news I've heard all day.

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Injecting Your Breasts with Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer

san_marino — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:04:08 PST

heh, nano-boob.

san_marino