Tag: prenatal
Noninvasive Prenatal Blood Testing Finds Cancer in Some Pregnant People
How Is This Prenatal Blood Test Detecting Cancer in Pregnant Patients? Researchers are trying to understand how a common prenatal blood test called NIPT is detecting cancer in some pregnant patients. By Rachel Feltman, Laura Hercher, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For more than a…
A Prenatal Test of the Fetus Turns Up Cancers in Pregnant Mothers
A Prenatal Test of the Fetus Turns Up Cancers in Pregnant Mothers A test for abnormal fetal chromosomes can also detect maternal cancers—and physicians are struggling to incorporate that knowledge into routine care By Laura Hercher edited by Gary Stix A noninvasive prenatal test. In 2013, Susan Klugman, an obstetrician and geneticist who is currently…