Coming soon -- rapid method for stomach cancer diagnosis

Lisbon, Dec 3: According to a recent clinical implication, Portuguese researchers have developed a new diagnostic method to detect stomach cancer with the use of 2D images. Not many know that stomach cancer is the fourth most common form of cancer in the world. Ipatimup is one of the world's leading research institutions for stomach cancer.

Where was the research study carried out?

The research was carried out by Joao Sances and Rauqel Seruca of the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (Ipatimuo) and was published in the scientific magazine European Journal of Human Genetics.

What did the researchers' find?

The researchers' method, which was tested on a tumour suppression protein called e-cadherin, uses images to detect the amount and location of protein in a group of cells. 'Detecting a mutation is easy, but it's not so easy to know if it can lead to a functional protein or not,' researcher Joao Sanches of the Universidad Tecnica de Lisboa told Xinhua.

'What we are proposing is based on the images of those cells which are sophisticated and complex, to conclude if the protein is functional. By doing this we have reduced the time of the diagnosis and improved accuracy,' he added.

Source: IANS

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