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Conference Coverage (Blood Safety)
Researcher Calls for Cancer Screening of Donated Blood and Organs
May 26th, 1997
The possibility of tumor DNA or tumor cells should be seriously considered as a risk for cancer by donated blood and organs, asserts a German researcher. The possible existence and significance of such tumor DNA, or even tumor cells, no longer can be doubted or overlooked as a possible risk for the origination of cancers by donated blood and organs, indicated U. Kubler, GMBA, Munich, Germany, in a controversial poster presented at the Blood Safety & Screening Conference, sponsored by Cambridge Healthtech Institute, April 14-16, 1997, in McLean, Virginia. Kubler reported that his group used the polymerase chain reaction assay to screen six randomly...
Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-05-26)
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