Breast Cancer Detect in Milk’s Cells

April 20, 2011 - PRLog -- The US researchers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, have conduct a study that revealed about the breast milk can help to detect of breast cancer. About 250 mothers are undergone on the studies, the researches collected samples for biopsy to check on breast cancer.

Cells in the milk of the mother are tested if she is developing or predict of having a breast cancer according to the scientist. Milk’s cells contain a certain genes linked to the illness.

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When the collection of the milk is done, they examined the DNA of the milk to see whether genes had been altered in a way which would suggest early signs of the lethal disease. The researchers found that the women who undergone biopsies suggested that they had breast cancer also showed signs of the disease in milk cells.

“That the study has shown yet another method of detecting breast cancer,” Dr. Kathleen Arcaro, the lead researcher of the study, said.

In coming future, up to 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer; additionally checking milk cells is the cheaper way to detect the breast cancer risk.

Around one in five cases occurs in younger age groups, although the illness is far more common among the over-50s.

But if the women are haven’t breast feeding, early detection for breast cancer is useless because it found in milk cells especially to those single young women.

Hoping that every woman who has a baby in hospital would have her breast milk tested for cancer, Dr Arcaro added. “We’ll take a little sample of colostrum and we’ll tell her how her breasts are doing,” she said. And “It’s totally non-invasive, potentially inexpensive, and really accurate.”

“This is an intriguing concept but the available information leaves several questions unanswered. Larger follow-up studies are now needed. In the meantime, women should continue to attend screening when invited.” Henry Scowcroft, of Cancer Research UK, said.

Hopefully, all women who give birth in the hospitals could provide milk for screening of the breast cancer within a few years.

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