Colon Cancer

Measuring a specific immune response may aid in diagnosis

Published in Blood Weekly, August 15th, 2002

In a step that might eventually make colon cancer easier to detect and treat, a study published July 16, 2002, in the journal Cancer Research finds that the immune system naturally identifies the hallmark signs of this cancer. Compared with 75 healthy adults, nearly half of colon cancer patients studied showed exclusive immune reactions to one of 13 specific tumor markers, or antigens, which can be found through a simple blood test.

"In the future, we may be able to find more antigens that cancer patients react to," said Dr. Mathew Scanlan, assistant member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, New York Branch at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and lead author...

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