Johnson and Johnson will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital to develop and market a blood test that could find a single cancer cell circulating in a person’s blood, the company said Monday. Researchers hope the test will be used by oncologists as a diagnostic tool aimed at discovering as early as possible if a cancer has spread, as well as by researchers in coming up with new drug therapies.
Veridex, a Johnson and Johnson company, announced the partnership in a statement, saying it involves Ortho Biotech Oncology Research and Development, a unit of Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development.
“This new technology has the potential to facilitate an easy-to-administer, non-invasive blood test that would allow us to count tumor cells, and to characterize the biology of the cells,” said Robert McCormack, Veridex’s head of technology innovation and strategy. “Harnessing the information contained in these cells in an in vitro clinical setting could enable tools to help select treatment and monitor how patients are responding.” Read more in CNN.
like so many cures… the medical sociaty will never allow this..to many people in would be affected in there sociaty.. so you wont see any answer soon , do you really think they care about us……….just power & money. correct me if i’m wrong…?
#1, Why so pessimistic?
Aderaba, this will allow them to treat earlier and more aggressively, many ‘problems’ that the body would have eliminated on its own, thereby increasing profits for doctors & pharmaceutical companies, and harming more and more people.
Sruli,
You’re the best, keep up the Heilaga work for this most Choshov Mosod.
TOBubbie says
” Aderaba, this will allow them to treat earlier and more aggressively, many ‘problems’ that the body would have eliminated on its own, thereby increasing profits for doctors & pharmaceutical companies, and harming more and more people.”
WHAT ? tens of thousands die each year from cancer I guess thier bodies did not “eliminate ” the problem
get out of the dark ages , modern medicine has saved millions of lives