Mouthwash for Detecting Cancer
by Howard Jamison on December 4, 2009
The cure rate is only 30% for a patient with head and neck cancer. That’s because the disease is often detected in the late stages. Now for the first time, a new mouthwash may be able to detect what doctors can’t.
The patient rinses with the saline mouthwash. After they spit it out, doctors add antibodies that identify molecules involved with cancer. In about 48 hours, if there’s cancer detected in the saliva, the molecules show up in color.
In a recent study there were 102 head and neck cancer patients and 69 patients with benign disease. The oral rinse distinguished cancer from benign disease nearly 90% of the time.
Doctors say they could probably cure at least 80% of head and neck cancer cases, if caught early. Currently, they are working on a version of the mouthwash that can be used as an over-the-counter test or administered at community health centers.
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