Thursday, May 30, 2013

EBV Blood test

Dr. Chan from Alexandria hospital got back to me on my EBV blood test, it’s positive, to further confirm I have cancer. Epstein-Barr Virus is a blood test that Predicts Outcome In Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cancer A biomarker test like this, when perfected, could identify patients whose treatment could be intensified after a month or so of standard therapy as well as those who might benefit from lighter treatment. patients with undetectable EBV DNA mid-course through treatment had a greatly reduced risk of developing cancer recurrence two years after treatment, compared with patients with detectable EBV DNA," said the study's senior investigator, Anthony Chan, M.D., director of the Cancer Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

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