Promising New Biomarkers Linked to Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))Two new papers in the “Advancing Women’s Health” issue of Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, show for the first time that measuring the amount of certain protein fragments and microRNAs in a woman’s blood and breast tissue might enable the early diagnosis of breast cancer or prediction of its metastasis, respectively.