Simple urine test could detect early-stage breast cancer

A simple, non-invasive home test kit could soon transform early breast cancer detection, thanks to pioneering research underway at a Welsh university. Scientists at Aberystwyth University are developing a prototype lateral flow device – similar to a pregnancy or COVID-19 test – that can detect early biochemical signs of breast cancer from a single urine […]

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Interesting privacy buttons on that website.

Rather than accepting to share your info you are opting out, the reverse of most websites.

They’ve recently tried something similar with a blood test for cancer and that failed. There’s no reason to believe that urine will hold more cancer biomarkers than blood.

Here’s the original paper

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00229