| | MAY 20224 Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. In an era where healthcare is so advanced, the treatment of Pancreatic cancer manifests an unfair statistic. Barring a few lucky patients who get diagnosed before the cancer spreads and have the 5-year survival rate is almost 60 percent, in nearly every case, the survival rate is less than five percent. That's why even the slightest breakthroughs in the area provide hope to millions of patients worldwide. A team led by Dr. Andrew Lowy, clinical director for Cancer Surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine, is set out to mitigate this predicament by developing a novel screening platform to detect early-stage cancer.Lowy and his colleague recently published their technique that uncovered more than 95 percent of early pancreatic cancers. The new technique revolves around tapping into the intercellular communication network. They purified extracellular vesicles (EVs)--the tiny, bubble-like blobs that mediate cell-to-cell communication-- from the blood of patients with early pancreatic, ovarian, and bladder cancers. Subsequently, they performed an analysis of the protein composition of the samples. Lowry and his team developed a machine-learning algorithm to detect a small set of EV proteins by comparing the samples from cancer and control patients. These proteins can be used to detect early-stage pancreatic, ovarian, and bladder cancers. They proclaim that their algorithm successfully detected 95.5 percent of stage one pancreatic cancers. The program also diagnosed 73.1 percent of stage one ovarian cancers and 43.8 percent of stage one bladder cancers. The method is potentially a `life changing' technology for early cancer detection. Hope is a good thing; may be the best of things. \Sujith VasudevanEditorsujith@ceoinsightsindia.comA New Ray of HopeVol 03 · Issue 12 · May 2022 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Sujith Vasudevan EditorialKeerthana Kantharaj Sthitaprajnya PanigrahiTanuja Akkannavar Deepawali DuttaAveek Pal Chaudhuri Ananth V Lakshmi G Group Art DirectorAshok KumarNoida Rohit Raghubanshi Garima Anandadvertise@ceoinsightsindia.comEditorial queries editor@ceoinsightsindia.comTo subscribeVisit www.ceoinsightsindia.com/subscribe/ or send emailto subscription@ceoinsightsindia.comCover price is Rs.150 per issue.Editor Alok ChaturvediPrinted and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of InfoConnect Web Technolo-gies India Pvt. Ltd. and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017.Copyright © 2022 InfoConnect Web Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher. Design Suanya Chakraborty Souvik AcharyaVP - Sales & Marketing Amrit SinghCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalEditorial
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