A Blood Test that Could Change Everything

January 26, 2011 The Power of Pink

According to the Associated Press, an innovative new blood test may be the next best thing in cancer treatment and prevention.

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a blood test that will be able to detect a single cancer cell among millions of healthy ones. If this blood test proves past testing and regulations, it could mean great things for the future of medicine.

This blood test would definitely be more effective than cancer screening methods such as mammograms and colonoscopies. Finding cancer cells sooner means saving more people and wonderful changes for research.

As someone with an embarrassing phobia of urine testing, but has no mind to blood work,
I say bring on the needles.

Groundbreaking blood test can spot cancer cells