When people have cancer, it helps to check their blood more often.
It is namely a substance that can indicate whether the disease is back. If this dust is increased, a patient should immediately below the CT-scanner. Thus, to detect metastases faster.
That says Charlotte Verberne, surgeon in training PhD Wednesday at the University of Groningen. Verberne was investigating people with colon and rectal cancer.
Each year, such tumors are found in approximately 13,000 people in the Netherlands. For most part of the intestine will be removed during an operation. Of them gets about a quarter still a metastasis.
Life
Verberne can not say yet whether earlier detection also means that people are living longer. It could also be that they are the same age after a new treatment without surgery, but have better final years.
Source: AD.nl/ © Reuters
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