A New Blood Test to Detect Breast Cancer

Biochemists Develop Proteomic Test For Breast Cancer is a Science Daily article about a blood test that could detect breast cancer at an earlier stage than a mammogram. The name of the test is the BC-SeraPro. The test measures protein concentration in blood and then compares the levels to what would be a normal condition. The test also has an advantage over mammograms in reduced false positives and false negatives. For mammograms false positives occur at a rate of about ten percent and false negatives at about twenty percent.