{"id":84548,"date":"2018-11-06T22:42:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/japan-develops-worlds-first-test-to-detect-cancer-via-urine-samples"},"modified":"2018-11-06T22:42:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T06:42:18","slug":"japan-develops-worlds-first-test-to-detect-cancer-via-urine-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/japan-develops-worlds-first-test-to-detect-cancer-via-urine-samples","title":{"rendered":"Japan Develops World\u2019s First Test to Detect Cancer via Urine Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-develops-worlds-first-test-to-detect-cancer-via-urine-samples.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Japan have developed the world\u2019s first test that can detect cancers in patient urine samples. The breakthrough technology by Japanese researchers from engineering firm Hitachi has been in development for two years and it may be made available by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to Agence France-Presse, the research team will work with Nagoya University to analyze 250 urine samples to check for breast, colon, and childhood forms of the disease in central Japan. The experiments will begin this month and end in September.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" data-attachment-id=\"2586\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/butwalpage.com\/japan-develops-worlds-first-test-to-detect-cancer-via-urine-samples\/screenshot_15-10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/butwalpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_15-3.jpg?fit=686%2C368&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"686,368\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\u201caperture\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d credit\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d camera\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d caption\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d created_timestamp\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d copyright\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d focal_length\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d iso\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d shutter_speed\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d title\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d orientation\u201d:\u201d0\u201d}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot_15\" data-image-description data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/butwalpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_15-3.jpg?fit=300%2C161&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/butwalpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_15-3.jpg?fit=686%2C368&ssl=1\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-develops-worlds-first-test-to-detect-cancer-via-urine-samples.jpg\" alt width=\"686\" height=\"368\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/butwalpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_15-3.jpg?w=686&ssl=1 686w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/butwalpage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot_15-3.jpg?resize=300%2C161&ssl=1 300w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan_develops_worlds_first_test_to_detect_cancer_via_urine_samples.gif\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/butwalpage.com\/japan-develops-worlds-first-test-to-detect-cancer-via-urine-samples\/\">https:\/\/butwalpage.com\/japan-develops-worlds-first-test-to-d...e-samples\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Japan have developed the world\u2019s first test that can detect cancers in patient urine samples. The breakthrough technology by Japanese researchers from engineering firm Hitachi has been in development for two years and it may be made available by 2020. According to Agence France-Presse, the research team will work with Nagoya University to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}