Detecting kidney cancer in its early stage is an important aspect of treating the disease, but it only happens by chance during CT scans. In most cases, kidney masses found by CT Scans aren’t even cancerous. A recent study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has revealed that measuring certain protein biomarkers in urine samples is more than 95 percent accurate in identifying early-stage kidney cancer. "These biomarkers are very sensitive and specific to kidney cancer," Dr. Evan D.
Kharasch, the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology, said in a statement. "The most common way that we find kidney cancer is as an incidental, fortuitous finding when someone has a CT or MRI scan. It's not affordable to use such scans as a screening method, so our goal has been to develop a urine test to identify kidney cancer early." Kharasch and his…
