cancer detection

The desire to detect cancer before it spreads to other areas of the body remains one of the priorities of the cancer research field. Why?

Cancer is most easily "cured" when it's caught early. That's the rationale behind Pap tests for cervical cancer, PSA tests for prostate cancer, and mammograms for breast cancer.

Somehow, the term "double talk" just doesn't do the job here. We need a new term. Since the story you've begun reading involves DNA, let's call it "double-stranded talk."

Wow!