Japanese firm uses tiny worms to detect early signs of pancreatic cancer

Great breakthrough! Listened to a Malcolm Gladwell podcast about dogs being able to smell cancer on patients and how successful they were, but nobody would take the dogs seriously. Maybe they will trust these worms more!

Excellent news!!!

Anything that helps us detect cancer in its early stages is good news. Even if it involves worms.

Great news. Pancreatic cancer took my big brother from me and anything that can help others is wonderful.

Mukbang Youtubers doing pretty amazing. What really is the cause then?

If it works, excellent!

Excellent news it does indeed work. My dad lost a good friend to pancreatic cancer.

My buddy died from this cancer. Scares the bejeezus out of me. Bring on the worms.

collegepark30349Today  08:43 am JST

Great news. Pancreatic cancer took my big brother from me and anything that can help others is wonderful.

SpeedToday  12:49 pm JST

My buddy died from this cancer. Scares the bejeezus out of me. Bring on the worms.

Yes, bring them on! I lost quite a number of relatives and friends to various cancers and the results are the same sad situation. It's scares me as well. If this is an effective way then this is good news indeed.

Extraordinary news - this cancer is unfortunately one of the deadliest - anything that can help detecting it faster would have many lives!

Fantastic. Brilliant useful science.

(Though I actually had thought that "Lord" Frost was the first "genetically modified a type of worm")