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UTEP Professor's Prostate Cancer Detection Test Could Limit Blood Tests, Unnecessary Biopsies

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. cancer diagnosis
  2. urinary organic metabolites
  3. Wastewater Organic Pollutants
  4. Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
  5. Analytical method development
  6. Environmental Endocrine Disruptor

Featured Researcher(s):

Lee, Wen-Yee
College: Science
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
UTEP Professor's Prostate Cancer Detection Test Could Limit Blood Tests, Unnecessary Biopsies
Date: July 22, 2019



Wen-Yee Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at El Paso, has developed an affordable early screening test for prostate cancer. The test uses a small urine sample and, in the future, could be developed as a kit similar to the home pregnancy test.


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