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Article: SALIVA TEST FOR BREAST CANCER IN THE WORKS STUDY FINDS THAT DISEASE CAN BE DETECTED EARLY ON.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 12, 2008
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Byline: TODD ACKERMANHouston Chronicle
HOUSTON -- Houston researchers are developing a test to diagnose breast cancer from saliva, an advance that eventually should enable dentists and physicians to alert patients during routine office visits.
In a study published this week, a team at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, led by a dentist, reported that specific protein markers in saliva can easily identify people with breast cancer cells, benign tumor cells and healthy cells.
"This will be a noninvasive, quick means of detection," said Dr. Charles Streckfus, a UT-Houston Dental Branch professor of diagnostic sciences who ...