Top 5 Newest Science Updates in the world of Fertility and Cancer.
1) A Genetic Breast Cancer Test
A genetic test to detect breast cancer has recently been developed by scientists. This test claims that it will help prevent hundreds of women from having to undergo chemotherapy.
Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine are currently experimenting with uterine transplants. This exploration will help determine whether it could help women who lack a womb bear children.
Digital tomosynthesis (toh-moh-SIN’-thah-sis) will be available for the first time in Kentucky at the Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky beginning in February. This new state of the art technology is coming to the Comprehensive Breast Care Center.
The process allows the technician to take multiple X-ray pictures and combines them all into one 3-D image. The university says it allows radiologists to see individual breast structures without the confusion of overlapping tissues.
Still in animal trials at the University of Georgia a mass-produced compound vaccine is currently being tested. The vaccine teaches a cancer patient’s own antibodies and white blood cells how to attack cancerous tumors throughout the body. According to the latest research, the tumors disappear.
“The glycopeptide is among a new family of treatments that could change medicine. And as the foundation of a potential vaccine factory in Georgia or elsewhere, it’s also an example of the university’s effort to turn research into industry.”
Scientists have developed a ‘fertility wand’ that has been shown to double the chances of becoming pregnant.
“These findings have been put to the test in a new trial involving 100 women who’d previously failed to conceive with IVF, despite their embryos being of a good quality.”
45 women who had undergone uterine biopsy had almost twice the rate of pregnancies and births as the control group, the study found.
The pregnant wand works by inserting a long plastic tube-like device called a pipelle into the womb and then rotating it 360 degrees.
