It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but SUNY Poly researchers are working year-round on a way to better detect and prevent it

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but SUNY Poly researchers are working year-round on a way to better detect and prevent it

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Monday, October 23, 2017 - 12:06
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The faculty at SUNY Poly are deeply involved in fighting breast cancer and finding ways to defeat it. Currently, a team of researchers, lead by Dr. Scott Tenenbaum, are working to develop an in-house, diagnostic tool that will help individuals in remission monitor the early signs of the cancer returning, otherwise known as a metastatic relapse. The concept is to create a test that is similar to an in-home pregnancy test by using a urine sample and that can be performed routinely each month.

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