Blood test can find serious skin cancer

According to a new research conducted at Dundee University presented at the National Cancer Research Institute conference suggests that the simple blood test could be useful to identify the patients who doubts about the skin cancer spread. There is a skin cancer Melanoma that is very difficult to detect and treat once it starts spreading. Through this research the scientists have developed measuring levels of a gene known as TFP12 in DNA in the blood that could help to determine this cancer. Through this advance research the medical practitioners will be able to diagnose this problem at an early stage and also they can treat it well as compared to previous times. The co-researcher of the study, Prof Charlotte Proby, a dermatologist based at the University of Dundee, explains, “Using blood tests to assess the landscape of our DNA is a simple way to learn more about what's going on under the skin. The switching on and off of certain genes seems to affect when, where and why the melanoma spreads.”