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Bowel Cancer Screen
Each year 1,000 Irish people die from bowel cancer
and 2,500 are diagnosed with the disease making it
the second most common type of cancer in Ireland.
Unfortunately the screening test for bowel cancer, the
‘Faecal Occult Blood Test’, which tests for blood in the
patients stool is not very sensitive, often missing early
stages of the disease.
A team from the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute at
Dublin City University has been working with Irish
biotech firm Randox to develop a €25 bowel cancer
screen that detects antibodies produced in response to
cancer onset and aims to do away with the outdated,
expensive, and inaccurate FOBT test.
www.bdi.ie