Cancer of the uterus: new diagnosis

Unfortunately, cervical cancer is still one of the most widespread: it affects 3,500 women every year in Italy alone. Medicine tries to go on with its studies, to intensify them, in the hope of finding a a way to reduce such a high mortality rate, and of course there is a lot of focus on prevention.

A group of scholars from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, has also gone in this direction, experimenting with a new technique for diagnosis, based on the blood heat test. It is less painful than the pap smear, but at the moment it cannot yet. replace it completely, because it focuses on plasma analysis and therefore is unable to collect precancerous cells.