LONDON,\u00a0United Kingdom\u00a0(AFP) \u2014 British scientists announced on Friday they had developed a test to detect womb cancer using urine samples, explaining the method could replace a painful and invasive procedure currently in use.<\/p>\n
At present, clinicians diagnose the cancer by taking a biopsy, a process which requires a narrow telescope called a hysteroscope,\u00a0to examine inside of the uterus and remove cells.<\/p>\n
Nearly a third of women who undergo the procedure have the process repeated because of technical difficulties or intolerable pain, the research showed.<\/p>\n
Thousands of women in Britain who do not have womb cancer also undergo the procedure, with huge financial implications for the country’s state-run National Health Service (NHS).<\/p>\n
The study from Manchester University has developed a new detection tool which examines urine or vaginal samples that can be collected by women on their own at home.<\/p>\n
The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, showed analysis of the samples correctly diagnosed 91.7 per cent of women with womb cancer.<\/p>\n
The proportion of women without womb cancer who tested negative with the new tool was 88.9 per cent, the study showed.<\/p>\n
“Our results show that womb cancer cells can be detected in urine and vaginal samples using a microscope,” said Professor Emma Crosbie, who led the study.<\/p>\n
“Women who test positive with this test could be referred for diagnostic investigations while women who test negative are safely reassured without the need for unpleasant, invasive, anxiety-provoking and expensive procedures.”<\/p>\n
The new tool was first trialled on\u00a0103 women with known cancer and 113 with unexplained postmenopausal bleeding and could be brought into clinical practice once expanded trials have concluded.<\/p>\n
Womb cancer is the sixth most common cancer in women, with an estimated 382,000 new diagnoses and 89,900 deaths from the disease in 2018 worldwide, the university said.<\/p>\n
While most women receive early treatment after the onset of symptoms, which include bleeding after menopause, 20 per cent of women who are diagnosed at an advanced stage have only a 15 per cent chance of surviving beyond five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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