In the history of health, lung cancer is one type of cancer which is difficult to cure. Now a simple new technique could help improve diagnosis and treatment options for patients with lung cancer.
This technique involves the calculation of the number of tumor cells in blood samples taken before and after patients underwent chemotherapy.
With this technique allows the doctor to find out how well patients respond to treatment given.
All this to determine the diagnosis of lung cancer through a procedure called bronchoscopy, which took tissue samples from the airways using a needle.
“Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in the UK and we desperately need new treatments for this disease,” said Dr Lesley Walker, director of information from Cancer Research UK, as quoted from the Telegraph.
The new and exciting from this technique is that it can detect and count tumor cells that circulate through the blood that show the progress in the handling of this disease.
The research team believes that by counting CTCs then the doctor can monitor how well patients respond to chemotherapy that had done. If the number of cells increases, then the patient will be given different treatment that might respond better.
