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给结肠癌患者验个血可预先知道他们的病是否会复发或扩散到其它的器官。验血是测定癌胚性抗原的数值,癌胚性抗原是大肠癌和其它器官所产生的一种抗体。纽约Memorial—Sloan Kettering癌症中心的医生发现在手术前用测定抗体的数值方法,可以估计大肠癌复发前的间隔时间。《新英格兰医学杂志》上一篇研究报告的检查对象是那些癌已渗透到肠坒或已
A blood test for colon cancer patients can know in advance whether their disease will recur or spread to other organs. A blood test is a measure of cancer-embryonic antigen, an antibody produced by colorectal cancer and other organs. Doctors at the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York found that using a numerical method for measuring antibodies prior to surgery can estimate the interval between recurrences of colorectal cancer. A previous study in the New England Journal of Medicine examined subjects whose cancers had penetrated or had