A blood test can predict cancer for 5 years before its occurrence

American scientists from Harvard University came to the creation of a blood test, which is able to recognize cancer for 5 years before the onset of the first clinical signs of it. Scientists have found that certain mutations in the blood demonstrates the existence of a particular person at high risk of developing tumors of blood.

Blood test

Simple blood test   be able to determine the risk of a person blood cancer   for five years before his there will be any signs of the disease. American scientists have found that under certain mutations in the blood, the risk of developing cancers, such as leukemia, or lymphoma, myelodysplastic syndrome, grows 13 times.

Science has long been known, cells mutate over time when they are reproduced and regenerated in body. Older people celebrated significantly larger number of mutated blood cells than young. However, if there are such young people mutation, it is a sign that things are going badly, and that in the near future in the body can appear blood cancer .

Availability such mutations suggests five percent risk of developing certain cancers, for 5 years, which is 13 times higher than those of similar mutations none. As scientists believe mutations occur in the stem cells of the blood, which then produce mutated cells that reproduce themselves at an accelerated pace until such time as the number does not become significant. Besides that, carriers of these mutations more than others at risk of becoming victims of diabetes the second type, cardiovascular disease and ischemic stroke. (READ CONT)

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