Technology For Cancer Diagnosis / Prognosis And How People...

Abstract Aim of this project is to study opportunities and challenges of novel biosensor technology for cancer diagnosis/prognosis and how people perceive the technology in relation to the risk involve. Study shows the earlier cancer is been perceived in a person, higher chance of there being a cure for it. Lately, most cancers are detected and diagnosed after it has fully grown. Hence, sensitive and accurate methods for early detection of relevant biomarkers for clinical diagnosis are of essence and need to be adopted by hospitals, clinics and also self-check by patient. Biosensors are devices intended to detect biological markers in the body, through the conversion of a biological sensing event to an electrical signal which detects and†¦show more content†¦Cancer can be seen as a group of diseases with a genetic compound that can affect any part of the body. It is a major cause of death in the world, which is affecting 13% of the population, leading public health problem that comes with an economic burden. When cancer is detected in an early state, there is an increase in the chances of survival but when not, problems will rise up which hinders lack of sensitive thereby, making cancer difficult to locate because of the small amount of circulating cancer cells and low expression of biomarkers or specific molecular markers. CANCER BIOMARKERS A biomarker is generally defined as a biological molecule such as proteins; DNA etc. generated in the blood, body fluids, or tissues which gives signs of a normal or abnormal process or conditions or a state of a diseases [2]. A biomarker disputes to see how well a body can respond to a treatment for a disease or condition by focusing on the activity changes from normal level, which then becomes an indicator of the