The test has been developed for glioblastoma - the type of aggressive brain tumour which affects around 2,200 people a year in the UK, and which comes back in about 75 per cent of cases.
READ MORE:A simple lateral flow test used to detect brain tumours at home is being developed by scientists.
Therefore a test they could take a few times a week would reduce their anxiety, and could detect a tumour much faster - when surgery is still possible or a treatment like radiation or chemotherapy will work better.The lateral flow test, similar to the ones used for Covid, takes a drop of blood rather than a nasal swab, and delivers a result within seconds.
The test is hoped to be used on blood samples from 60 people, with and without brain tumours, in the next few months to see how well it works. 'It would provide significant reassurance to be able to track the cancer's reappearance at home using a cheap test which we are all now well-used to using.' But brain tumour cells are believed to act strangely, and may abandon the activity of helping red blood cells grow, focusing on other processes like multiplying to form larger tumours.
People currently often have an average wait of three to six months between MRI scans to see if a tumour has regrown
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