Management Aptitude Test 2016 Paper

Question : 67 of 200

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A simple blood test that can detect a cancer before a tumour has taken shape has been developed by British scientists. Described as offering a paradigm shift in cancer diagnosis, the test, few years back introduced in Britain few years back— was the first to identify accurately the signals sent out by a person’s immune system as cancer germinates. According to the research, such signals can be detected up to 5 yr before a tumour is spotted prompting doctors to intervene at the earliest moment when a solid cancer appears. The brain child of scientists at the University of Nottingham is a company called Oncimmune which uses a technology to find out how the immune system responds to the first molecular signs of cancer development.
Which of the following is not in consonance with the contents of the passage?

(a) But the other investigation tools will have to be used to know the exact location of the cancerous part and its intensity. The effect of the cancerous part on the critical parts of the body in, the neighbourhood of the affected area will also have to be studied.
(b) Cancerous cells produce small amounts of proteins called antigens which prompt the immune system to produce large amounts of autoantibodies. Scientists can now follow this activity with just 10 mL of a patient’s blood sample.
(c) “We are starting to understand Carcinogenesis in a way that we have never seen before —seeing which proteins are going wrong, and how the immune system responds. It is as if our body is shouting ‘I have got cancer, way before a tumour can be detected.” — said John Robertson.
(d) John Robertson, a breast cancer specialist who led the research, said, “the earliest cancer we *have seen is a cancer that has been screen detected and yet biologically, it is late in the road of cancer development. Now, it is the blood sample which will detect the propagation of this disease”.

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