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Women should be aware that they have several options for colon cancer screening, and not only the often-dreaded colonoscopy, according to a new report from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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Exosome Diagnostics is a specialized bio-pharmaceutical company that develops a unique kind of genetic-based diagnostic tests. The company’s technological platform isolates from the blood micro-vesicles produced by cells, and then analyze the genetic material in the vesicles, which is representative of the cells they were made from. Certain cells, such as cancer cells, contain a genetic signature and therefore isolation of vesicles containing this genetic material is indicative of the disease. In particular, cancer cells have been shown to produce a large amount of micro-vesicles (or exosomes) and therefore this technology can serve to identify hard to detect cancer cases.…

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