Tri-Cities Tech Business Update
*PNNL wins national cancer study project
New project: Detecting aggressive breast cancer with a blood test.
Mammography and biopsies help find breast cancer, but even biopsies won't tell the doctor if the cancer will spread. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is one of two partners that were awarded a $2 million project from the Department of Defense to find proteins that indicate aggressive breast cancer and that can be detected by a simple blood test. The project takes advantage of advanced proteomics technology at PNNL. Instruments from the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy user facility at PNNL, will be used to identify proteins and analyze patient samples. The other partner is Walter Reed-Windber Clinical Breast Care Project in Washington, D.C. and in Windber, Penn. More information. Contact Mary Beckman at (509) 375-3688.
