Detecting cancer with a single drop of blood | Myron Best | TEDxGroningen

What if you could find out if you have cancer with one drop of blood. But not only IF you have cancer, but what type and how advanced it is? Myron explains recent discoveries which will lead to this revolutionary detection ability.

Myron Best is an MD/PhD-student, who conducts his research at the VU university medical center Amsterdam and the Cancer Center Amsterdam. After he obtained his bachelor’s degree in Medicine, he applied for the MD/PhD-trajectory in which he aims to both obtain his master’s degree in Medicine as his PhD thesis. His research is focused on the use of blood platelets to read cancer and other diseases in blood, using novel molecular techniques combined with sophisticated bioinformatic algorithms. He and his colleagues perform studies that focus on the detection of several types of cancer and other diseases in blood, develop algorithms that capture the changes in blood during tumor treatment, and unravel the biological role of blood platelets in human diseases. His work is published in leading scientific journals including Cancer Cell and covered by national and international media.

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