CUHK Research Receives Recognitions by Top Medical Journals
26 December 2017
Prof. Dennis Lo, SHHO College Member and Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences and Chairman of the Department of Chemical Pathology at CUHK Medicine, world-renowned for his discovery of the presence of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma, has been working to apply circulating DNA analysis for screening early cancers. Recently, a study led by Prof. Allen Chan and Prof. Dennis Lo is among the ten most “Notable Articles of 2017” selected by a top medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). This is a landmark study on over 20,000 people which demonstrated that plasma Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA analysis is useful for screening early asymptomatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).
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27 December 2017
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