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Management Aptitude Test 2016 Paper

Question : 67

Total: 200

(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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