Microfluidic electrochemical detection of prostate cancer using telomerase activity

Prostate cancer has become one of the leading causes of death and the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men, worldwide. It is highly treatable if detected early, but the current screening methods suffer from poor clinical specificity for prostate cancer, leading to unavoidable misdiagnosis and ove...

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Main Author: Yu, Jie
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30528