Can Hemoglobin be used to detect and monitor cancer progression? An update (ISSN 2753-8176 (online))
Can Hemoglobin be used to detect and monitor cancer progression? An update (ISSN 2753-8176 (online)) 1.Ana Pedro 1.Gwyntwr1386 Health & Social Care, 58 Grove Road, Birkenhead, CH42 XX. info@gwyntwr1386.com The rationale for developing a lab based assay for cancer - Mammography screening is meant to reduce breast cancer mortality through early diagnosis and treatment of disease that would otherwise threaten life. However, in some cases a screening mammogram detects a cancer that would have neither caused death nor presented clinically during the woman’s lifetime. It is clear that to reduce the burden of over diagnosis on both the emotional and physical health of the patient and the economic health of the NHS, more sensitive tests for the diagnosis of breast cancer are needed (1, 1b, 1c). An hemoglobin based test would be very specific, unexpensive and very accessible as for the reasons detailed below. - Total hemoglobin and different hemoglobin subunits seem to be assoc...