The first consistent test to diagnose prostate cancer could be available for British males with few months. The test could help elderly people to be screened quickly. The researchers are also developing an edition of test kit which is suitable for home use and could provide accurate results from just a few drops of urine within minutes.
The existing blood test calculates the levels of protein generated by the prostate, but false positive and negative results meant that PSA ( prostate-specific antigen) test is wrong more frequently than it is right. Currently many male participants are subjected to painful, embarrassing and needless tests.
Whereas in other cases hatchling cancers are overlooked until they have spread to other parts of the body and are much harder to treat. But the new test observes the production of a diverse protein known as EN2 and preliminary studies show it o be more precise.
In the study trail over nearly three hundred men, the new test detected up to seventy percent of cancers which made it almost double as good as PSA test. Significantly, it provided false positive results just four percent of the time that is ten times less than the PSA test, reported the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
The new test focuses on urine rather than blood and also has advantage of dispensing with needles. Larger-scale experiments on thousands of British and American men are in progress, and if the test fulfils its preliminary assure it could be available in private clinics by the end of this year.
The exciting discovery has hailed by Prof Robert Winston, which is the finale of three years of research at the University of Surrey. The technology that lies beneath the test is so simple that having a desktop apparatus in a GP’s surgery would be very, very straightforward, stated one of project’s researchers Prof Hardev Pandha.