Screening test for liver cancer to be first tried here
Screening test for liver cancer to be first tried in Mongolia
Screening test for liver cancer to be first tried in Mongolia. A team of researchers at the University of Utah is hoping to drastically reduce that number, especially in developing nations. Led by chemistry professor Marc Porter, U. surgeon Courtney Scaife and Nano Institute of Utah research associate Jennifer Granger, the team has created a portable screening test that will detect whether or not an individual is at risk for liver cancer — in 2 minutes. Screening for liver cancer currently requires lab blood tests, ultrasound imaging and a good, long wait. For many in developing countries, a screening test would involve a trip to a major city, costing more than a month’s salary. Instead, the team’s test can be administered wherever the patient is and researchers are working to lower the cost of the screening to $3 per test. The team wants to travel to Mongolia in the spring of 2019 to try the test on patients there as it has the highest rate of liver cancer in the world. “The plan is to go to five or six different locations in Mongolia where there are patients and individuals that have come in as part of their routine exams, and then take the sample and run it and see what’s going on,” chemistry professor Marc Porter.
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