 PALO ALTO, Calif. (KCBS) -- Some of the nation's top oncologists were meeting at Stanford University Wednesday to work toward a goal of developing a simple blood test to detect cancer.
The symposium by the Canary Foundation allowed doctors to share their research in developing a simple two-stage test for cancer. They're hoping to deliver an early detection test for solid tumor cancers by 2015, said Don Listwin, founder of the Canary Foundation.
The blood test, which would look for proteins given off by cancer cells, could detect the disease at its earliest stages, when treatment would be most effective, Listwin said. But recent cuts in federal funding for cancer research could hamper development of the test, he said.
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KCBS' Matt Bigler reports
