LONDON (Reuters) - A simple blood test can detect early stage liver cancer and more accurately diagnose a disease that is a major killer in Asia and Africa, researchers said on Wednesday.
Liver cancer kills nearly 700,000 people each year, mainly in Africa and Asia which have a high prevalence of hepatitis infections that cause the disease.
In the study, published in the journal Hepatology, the researchers developed a blood test to detect changes in sugars attached to proteins that occur in liver cancer, Chen said.
The researchers also showed they could determine the size of the tumor based on the amount of two particular sugar groups that appeared in the proteins, she said.
Used with the AFP test, the new method was more accurate and can better detect liver cancer and save lives by getting patients earlier treatment, she added.
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