DNA Methylation Markers Detect Breast Cancer Significantly Earlier than Current Methods

Imagine being able to detect the beginning stages of cancer up to a year earlier than current methodologies allow. That is exactly what a new study by investigators at the University College London (UCL) have just described in their new study recently published in Genome Medicine , in an article entitled “ Methylation Patterns in Serum DNA for Early Identification of Disseminated Breast Cancer .” The UCL team has identified a new marker—a region of DNA called EFC#93—that