Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

• How is pancreatic cancer being diagnosed through a blood test? Researchers from Indiana University shed light on this new discovery in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
• Researchers at Stanford have developed a new imaging method that may improve cancer detection. More information can be found in Science Translational Medicine.
• Scientists at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have generated the first three-dimensional human stomach tissue in a lab using stem cells. More on this development in the latest issue of Nature.

• A report on the efficacy of complementary therapies for breast cancer patients has been published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monograph.
• You can lower your risk of colorectal cancer with aspirin and NSAIDS according to a study led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. For more, see PNAS.
• Diagnosing lung cancer before imaging detection may be possible as researchers at INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche medicale) find that animals with invasive tumors shed cancer cells into the bloodstream at a very early stage. More on their findings in PLOS.

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