Detecting pancreatic cancer from the whites of your eyes

Researchers at the University of Washington have come up with an experimental app called “BiliScreen” that can detect small amounts of bilirubin in the whites of your eyes.  Since pancreatic cancer raises levels of bilirubin, this could be a way to detect this elusive cancer much earlier.

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