Not to see this blog as in any way anti-medicine, we report of good developments with medical and scientific advances. Thus, a research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has found a new way of detecting multiple types of newly formed cancers at the same time. As cancer may lead to high mortalities in late stages, early detection of cancers is an advancement. The new method is based upon the discovery that a specific type of sugar (glycosaminoglycans), can be used as biomarkers to detect cancers, even in the early stages, much better than the other methods such as DNA fragment detection. Changes in the specific sugars are then analysed by machine algorithms.
In reflection, it would be a much better world if technologically based medicine concentrated upon issues like this, rather than all those critiqued at the blog almost every day. Faith in mainstream medicine would be restored, at least to some degree, even though we would remain ever-vigilant.
