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Monday 15 Feb 2016 - 14:09 Makkah mean time-6-5-1437
The home kit takes just 10 minutes to diagnose cancer (Pic: Mirror website)
California (IINA) – Scientists have developed a cancer test which can be carried out at home using a single drop of saliva to diagnose the disease in just 10 minutes.
Lead researcher Prof David Wong, Associate Dean of Research at the California State University, Los Angeles, says it is possible to detect tumor DNA when is it circulating in bodily fluids – an approach known as a liquid biopsy.
The saliva test is 100 percent accurate and is so simple that it could be carried out at a pharmacist, the dentist or even in the privacy of someone's own home if they were concerned, Wong said.
Wong’s test, which costs around just 15, has shown that just a single drop of saliva contains enough data to give a definitive diagnosis as soon as a tumor develops.
It is due to enter full clinical trials in lung cancer patients later this year, and is expecting approval within two years from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Wong believes it could be useful for many other cancers, such as oral cancer.
“If there is circulating signature of a tumor in a person blood or saliva, this test will find it,” Professor Wong told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington.
The study was published in The Telegraph on February 15.
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