“Don’t waste precious time.” A quick and cheap test has been named that will help find cancer long before the first symptoms appear – Health

Scientists have created a quick and inexpensive test that will help determine from a characteristic protein in the blood that a person has started an oncological process long before the first signs of the disease appear, that is, at the earliest stage, which increases the likelihood of successful treatment, reports Sports.kz with reference to Hibiny. ru.

““Don’t waste precious time”: a quick and cheap test has been named that will help find cancer long before the first symptoms appear,” reads the title of the article on the website Hibiny.ru.

The test was developed by specialists from Rockefeller University; its essence is to detect traces of a protein in the blood that is produced only by cancer cells – LINE-1 ORF1p.

In a blood sample, the test finds protein from patients with ovarian cancer, esophageal cancer, colorectal cancer and a number of other forms of malignant tumors.

The result can be assessed after 2 hours…