Saturday 1 October 2022 10:39 PM Mould in blood could help doctors spot cancers, as experts find fungi living in ... trends now
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Doctors could one day spot aggressive forms of cancer using a test that looks for mould spores in the blood.
A group of international experts have found that fungi – organisms that include yeast, moulds and mushrooms – live inside cancer cells.
As traces of them can be detected in blood, experts believe the discovery could eventually help doctors to spot cancers at their earliest stages.
Research suggested that specific fungi are attracted to certain types of cancer. For instance, one type of fungus appeared to be common in breast cancer tumours which have low survival rates. Another was often found to live in aggressive skin cancers.
As the fungi were
