Blood test detects more cancers when added to standard screening
The PATHFINDER 2 trial found the test detected 6.5 times more cancers and identified many cases at earlier, more treatable stages.
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PATHFINDER 2 findings advance multi-cancer early detection blood testing
A single blood draw that screens for more than 50 cancers substantially increased cancer detection when added to standard screening, identifying cancers that otherwise might have gone undetected until later stages, according to a new study from the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute.
Blood test detects more cancers when added to standard screening
A single blood draw that screens for more than 50 cancers substantially increased cancer detection when added to standard screening, identifying cancers that otherwise might have gone undetected until later stages, according to a new study from the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute.
A single blood test is able to find signs of more than 50 types of cancer in the human body. A new study on this revolutionary test shows that it has reached the origin of the disease in 91.3% of the cases, reported the specialized scientific journal Nature. The results on the test called Galleri were published [...]
Multicancer Blood Test Detects 17 Cancer Types in Large Prospective Study
A large prospective study published in Nature Medicine found that a blood test designed to detect multiple cancers identified cancer signals across 17 broad cancer types, such as ovarian, lung, breast and colorectal cancers, and many which do not have recommended screening tests.
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