{"id":1111,"date":"2017-02-16T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:31:40","slug":"for-pancreatic-cancer-biomarker-test-offers-chance-for-early-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"For Pancreatic Cancer, Biomarker Test Offers Chance for Early Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1114\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/436904\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NonoGoldBiomarker-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NonoGoldBiomarker-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NonoGoldBiomarker-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NonoGoldBiomarker.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When cancer is detected, \u00a0the interaction of two nanoparticles creates a bright yellow signal (photo by Fei Lu, Houston Methodist Research Institute).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States each year, in part because around four-fifths of cases go undetected until they have reached an advanced stage. But a new, biomarker-based test could soon change all that \u2014 and offer a way to monitor treatment outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/436904\" target=\"_blank\">Biomarker Test Offers Hope For Early Detection Of Pancreatic Cancer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States each year, in part because around four-fifths of cases go undetected until they have reached an advanced stage. But a new, biomarker-based test could soon change all that \u2014 and offer a way to monitor treatment outcomes. Read\/listen to my full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Pancreatic Cancer, Biomarker Test Offers Chance for Early Detection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,82,121,67,74,3,13],"tags":[1209,157,115,1177,68],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-health","category-imaging","category-medicine","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-biomarker","tag-cancer","tag-nanotechnology","tag-pancreas","tag-pathology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}