The new test for cervical cancer

Affordable and cheap test for cervical cancer could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients. Its creators claim that this test is far more accurate than others.

Scientists at Columbia University conducted a study to test cervical cancer   entitled Cobas. As we found out, this analysis provides a much more accurate than any existing. To obtain these results requires less than a day. Even less than a year Cobas, which costs only 15 pounds, can enter into the arsenal of oncologists.

The currently applied brushstrokes define the abnormal growth of cells. A patient is looking for Cobas human papillomavirus, which initially starts the growth of malignant cells. It means that cervical cancer   you can fix at the earliest stages when the chances of recovery close to 95%.

Research has shown, recorded Cobas virtually all cancer cases, while smear "fished", only two out of three cases. In a new test of the patient can be held once in five years. "About 30% of women with cervical cancer   Pap did not find anything, - said Dr. Thomas Wright, who led the research. - That's why we think that the new test will be able to detect cancer in the majority of cases. "

In the UK alone cervical cancer   killing more than a thousand patients each year. It is the second most common type of cancer among young women, it is diagnosed in 3000 patients each year. The survival rate for p ake cervix   lower than in other types of cancer, as it is often diagnosed in the late stages.

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