Molecular Cancer (Feb 2024)

Multicancer screening test based on the detection of circulating non haematological proliferating atypical cells

  • Natalia Malara,
  • Maria Laura Coluccio,
  • Fabiana Grillo,
  • Teresa Ferrazzo,
  • Nastassia C. Garo,
  • Giuseppe Donato,
  • Annamaria Lavecchia,
  • Franco Fulciniti,
  • Anna Sapino,
  • Eliano Cascardi,
  • Antonella Pellegrini,
  • Prassede Foxi,
  • Cesare Furlanello,
  • Giovanni Negri,
  • Guido Fadda,
  • Arrigo Capitanio,
  • Salvatore Pullano,
  • Virginia M. Garo,
  • Francesca Ferrazzo,
  • Alarice Lowe,
  • Angela Torsello,
  • Patrizio Candeloro,
  • Francesco Gentile

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12943-024-01951-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

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Abstract Background the problem in early diagnosis of sporadic cancer is understanding the individual’s risk to develop disease. In response to this need, global scientific research is focusing on developing predictive models based on non-invasive screening tests. A tentative solution to the problem may be a cancer screening blood-based test able to discover those cell requirements triggering subclinical and clinical onset latency, at the stage when the cell disorder, i.e. atypical epithelial hyperplasia, is still in a subclinical stage of proliferative dysregulation. Methods a well-established procedure to identify proliferating circulating tumor cells was deployed to measure the cell proliferation of circulating non-haematological cells which may suggest tumor pathology. Moreover, the data collected were processed by a supervised machine learning model to make the prediction. Results the developed test combining circulating non-haematological cell proliferation data and artificial intelligence shows 98.8% of accuracy, 100% sensitivity, and 95% specificity. Conclusion this proof of concept study demonstrates that integration of innovative non invasive methods and predictive-models can be decisive in assessing the health status of an individual, and achieve cutting-edge results in cancer prevention and management.

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