A new test to better treat early oesophageal cancer


A new test might help to decrease the 80% of oesophageal tumours that are not shrunk before surgery by standard chemotherapy. — TNS

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast (Queen’s) in the United Kingdom have developed a test that could radically improve the lives of people with oesophageal cancer through a personalised medicine approach.

The researchers at Queen’s and the University of Cambridge, UK, in partnership with the stratified medicine company Almac Diagnostic Services, have validated a test that, for the first time, could enable clinicians to decide the most appropriate chemotherapy for early stage oesophageal cancer.

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