Earlier Cancer Detection Could Be Just an Artificial Mole Away


Well-known mole-bearers have made the “imperfection” into a glamorous way to express yourself. Madonna’s famously drawn-on beauty mark, the Monroe piercings of emo darlings. They’re downright fashionable.

Tomorrow, though, there could be artificial ones. And they wouldn’t just be for aesthetic purposes — they may mean life-saving healthcare.

A research team has found a way to produce an artificial mole that serves as an early warning sign of the four most common types of cancer (namely: prostate, lung, colon, and breast). The researchers published a study Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

In 2018, doctors will diagnose an estimated 764,610 people with cancer in the prostate, lung, colon, or breast — in the U.S. alone. Early detection can significantly increase a person’s chance of surviving these cancers.

This new artificial mole? It can spot the warning signs even sooner than conventional diagnosis methods.

Here’s how it works. First, the researchers created an implant that contains a network of genes and human cells. Once under a person’s skin, the implant monitors their blood calcium level. That’s an important metric to watch because, when our bodies begin developing a tumor, this level increases....Read more

 

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