In this intriguing article, New Blood Test Shows Promise in Cancer Fight, by Gina Kolata, the author discusses the new way that could eventually help treat cancer. As a result of new research, now surgeons are starting to test the use of liquid biopsies instead of cancer biopsies. A cancer biopsy is when a surgeon cuts out a piece of the patient’s tumor. However a liquid biopsy is a blood test that has only recently been recently used because of our great new technology. This new biopsy is very helpful because it is a much quicker and easier way to find out if a specific treatment is working or not. “This could change forever the way we follow up not only response to treatments but also the emergence of resistance, and down the line could even be used for really early diagnosis,” said Dr. José Baselga, physician in chief and chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Sloan Kettering is a prestigious cancer hospital, so if this doctor is a cancer expert and works at Sloan, he definitely knows what he is talking about.
This new research and data is very obvious as to why it is so helpful for humans. Cancer is a huge cause of death and is a very devastating disease for those who have it and even the people around the cancer patient. There are plenty of ways to help cancer, however we are yet to discover a cure for cancer. This new outbreak in research may not be the cure, but it could possibly lead to the cure. Anything to help reduce deaths from cancer is a huge step for humanity and will be used and remembered forever. Our society needs as much information as possible about cancer and how to help treat it. This article provides that information, the article tells us how cancer research has developed over time and how useful it actually is.
The article as a whole was beautifully written and well thought out. The author did a great job presenting all of this information and research to the reader while keeping it interesting. However, there were some flaws. The vocabulary in the article was impressive, but it was a bit extreme. There were multiple words i did not know and was forced to look them up. For example: transformative, feasible, onerous, etc., I did not know these words. There was not much else to critique besides that, I thought this author did an excellent job.
Posted for D. Meehan
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