Today, medical diagnostics is moving forward, as they say, by leaps and bounds. And this applies, including diagnoses in difficult areas such as oncology. So recently experts from the world-famous Japanese corporation Toshiba developed a unique method oncological diagnostics for which a drop of blood is required from the patient for analysis, and a couple of hours time. The developers guarantee that the cancer if it develops in the body, will be determined with an accuracy of 99%.
About our developments in this area Corporation announced officially by publishing information in the media, the 11/25/2019
The essence of the method
The above method is based on the identification of species and concentration of small, so-called "non-coding" RNA molecules that produce cancer cells into the circulatory system. That is why the analysis of only the blood is required, and a very small quantity.
Toshiba created the testing was a special type of portable device, which is integrated in a diagnostic chip. The device analyzes the blood and determines the presence of onco-cells, including breast, colon, stomach, esophagus, bladder, liver, pancreas, etc.. And the test is triggered even at early stages of the disease.
Prospects for a diagnostic test
Toshiba Corporation (Japan) rightly expects that by the end of the test cycle (which is already a few years later) a new method of diagnosing cancer will apply everywhere.
For reference: in the Country of the Rising Sun in the past decade the number of cancer patients has increased considerably. That is why Japanese scientists very actively exploring this area, as well as looking for new methods of dealing with cancer. First and foremost, their efforts aimed at improving cancer diagnosis methods to detect it at the earliest possible stages of development. And to do this more and more scientists are using artificial intelligence.
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