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2. ISET Test - Wikipedia

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   However, blood filtration to recover rare circulating tumor cells without loss and without cell damage is a challenge. The ISET test uses a specially designed device and specially designed filters to allow the elimination of all erythrocytes and most leukocytes from the sample, making the subsequent cytopathology process significantly easier ...

3. Henrietta Lacks - Wikipedia

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   Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [2] was an African-American woman [5] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [B] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...

4. Cancer screening - Wikipedia

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   The objective of cancer screening is to detect cancer before symptoms appear, involving various methods such as blood tests, urine tests, DNA tests, and medical imaging. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The purpose of screening is early cancer detection, to make the cancer easier to treat and extending life expectancy. [ 3 ]

5. At-home testing for cancer-causing HPV helps further improve ...

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   The first cells to be grown in petri dishes outside the human body came from cervical cancer tissue taken from Henrietta Lacks at Johns Hopkins in 1951. This development was a breakthrough ...

6. Charity wants testing of men at high risk of prostate cancer

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   Despite more men dying from prostate cancer than women from breast cancer, there is no reliable test for the disease. The blood test men over 50 can request from their GP measures prostate ...

7. Cervical screening - Wikipedia

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   Cervical cancer screening is a medical screening test designed to identify risk of cervical cancer. Cervical screening may involve looking for viral DNA, and/or to identify abnormal, potentially precancerous cells within the cervix as well as cells that have progressed to early stages of cervical cancer .