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Jul 1, 2024
Blood proteins predict cancer seven years before diagnosis, study finds
Oxford Population Health researchers have found 618 proteins that are linked to 19 different types of cancer. 107 of these proteins were identified in a group of people whose blood was taken at least seven years before the cancer was diagnosed.
Source
Paper, K., Atkins, J.R., Tong, T.Y.N. et al. Identifying proteomic risk factors for cancer using prospective and exome analyses of 1463 circulating proteins and risk of 19 cancers in the UK Biobank. Nat Commune 15, 4010 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48017-6
