Article: Snuffing out cancer

Heather Haemker
University Wire
01-23-2008
(Indiana Daily Student) (UWIRE) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- For the first time, early cancer detection will be routine thanks to BioCurex, Inc., a biotechnology company in Canada that has developed the technology to identify a cancer marker present in malignant cancer cells and absent in most normal cells. The technology could be available some time this year.

"Everyone knows if you catch cancer early, you have a better chance of stopping it," said Terry Johnston, spokesman for BioCurex.

The cancer marker RECAF is able to differentiate cancer cells from nornal cells, Johnston said. Discovered by researcher and director of BioCurex Ricardo Moro, RECAF is ...

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