Plasma protein profiling predicts cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms
Fredrika Wannberg, María Bueno Álvez, Alvida Qvick, Tamas Pongracz, Katherina Aguilera, Emma Adolfsson, Louise Essehorn, Max Gordon, Mathias Uhlén, Gisela Helenius, Viktoria Hjalmar, Mikael Åberg, Axel Rosell, Charlotte Thålin · 2025
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Wannberg and co-authors show that blood protein profiling can predict cancer in patients with vague symptoms in a 2025 paper. Cancer is hard to detect when symptoms are non-specific and overlap with harmless conditions. Doctors need a triage tool that flags which of these patients need urgent work-up.
The team measured 1,463 plasma proteins in 456 patients before their diagnostic work-up began. The profiling identified twenty-nine proteins that carried signal about cancer presence. A blood test of this kind could speed diagnosis for a group that now often waits through long, uncertain referral paths.
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| CREATOR | Fredrika Wannberg, María Bueno Álvez, Alvida Qvick, Tamas Pongracz, Katherina Aguilera, Emma Adolfsson, Louise Essehorn, Max Gordon, Mathias Uhlén, Gisela Helenius, Viktoria Hjalmar, Mikael Åberg, Axel Rosell, Charlotte Thålin |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |