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In a just-released study, researchers successfully linked changes found in human saliva to the presence of early-stage pancreatic cancer putting dental health professionals on the front line in the battle against the so-called "worst cancer" pancreatic.
A multidisciplinary group of investigators at the UCLA School of Dentistry, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the UCLA School of Public Health and UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has demonstrated the usefulness of salivary diagnostics in the effort to find and fight the disease.
"Worldwide, the prevalence of pancreatic cancer is so high, and the disease is so deadly, that it calls out for a reliable means of early diagnosis," said the study's senior investigator, David Wong, UCLA Professor of Dentistry and associate dean of research at the dental school. "The ability to implement safe, cost-effective, widespread screening could be the answer to saving thousands of lives each year."
"Not only are these saliva-based diagnostic methods for pancreatic cancer simple and noninvasive, they may also represent an improvement in specificity and sensitivity over currently used procedures, such as blood tests, for early pancreatic cancer detection," said James Farrell, Director of the Pancreatic Diseases Program at UCLA.
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Pancreatic Cancer is increasing day by day. It is in the fourth position in most prevalant type of cancer. So it is very important to detect it in early stages. For that, scientists have found a new way of blood test which could detect Pancreatic Cancer in early stage. That will be very helpful. Detecting any type of cancer is early stages, helps a lot.
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