Cancer Screening

New cancer test speeds feedback on results of therapy

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 7th, 2004

Doctors using new technology can get fast feedback on whether treatments are working for breast cancer victims, a new study shows.

The test that counts cancer cells in bloodstreams of patients with advanced breast cancer speeds the determination of effectiveness of a therapy to weeks instead of months, according to the study led by the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and published in the August 19 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Massimo Cristofanilli, an associate professor in M.D. Anderson's department of breast medical oncology and the study's lead author, said it confirmed that tumors circulating in the...

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