The NanoMslide causes potentially cancerous cells to ‘light up’ with vivid colour contrast. It has already been successful in finding early-stage breast cancer cells in human tissue.
Most people with oesophageal cancer are over the age of 60, and it is often only diagnosed in its late stages.
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Researchers have developed a simple way to detect early stage oesophageal cancer using anitbodies in blood.
A lot of people have spent a very long time wondering what causes cancer – and scientists still can’t say for certain why an individual person might have it.
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