Health and Fitness

Level of Tumor Protein Indicates Chances Cancer Will Spread

Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2011. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Hong Kong have discovered that high levels of a particular protein in cancer cells are a reliable indicator that a cancer will spread.

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By measuring the protein’s genetic material in tumors that had been surgically removed from patients, along with measuring the genetic material from surrounding tissue, the researchers could predict at least 90 percent of the time whether a…

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