{"id":1062093,"date":"2022-04-20T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/blood-test-may-accurately-diagnose-melanoma-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:36:08","slug":"blood-test-may-accurately-diagnose-melanoma-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/blood-test-may-accurately-diagnose-melanoma-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood test may accurately diagnose melanoma, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Blood-test-may-accurately-diagnose-melanoma-study-finds.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">April 20 (UPI) \u2014<\/span> Testing a person\u2019s blood for the presence of circulating melanoma cells may help identify skin cancer, while allowing them to skip invasive biopsies, a study published Wednesday found.<\/p>\n<p>The test uses a technology called Melanoma-specific OncoBean and employs antibodies, or proteins produced by the immune system to fight off diseases, related to the form of skin cancer, researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20 (UPI) \u2014 Testing a person\u2019s blood for the presence of circulating melanoma cells may help identify skin cancer, while allowing them to skip invasive biopsies, a study published Wednesday found. The test uses a technology called Melanoma-specific OncoBean and employs antibodies, or proteins produced by the immune system to fight off diseases, related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}