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| New blood test could detect 20 types of cancer |
| 2019-09-30 |
| [New York Post] A new blood test now under development can help detect 20 kinds of cancer, according to trials underway at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In trials, the test correctly identified 32 percent of patients with stage-one disease and 76 percent of those with stage-two disease, the institute announced. Breast, colorectal and lung cancers were among those detected in blood samples. The test showed an extremely low misdiagnosis rate ‐ only 0.6 percent of healthy blood samples came back as incorrectly indicating cancer. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Not getting tested gives a 100% false negative. |
| Posted by: Grutch Cheting3238 2019-09-30 18:31 |
| #1 False negatives are a bigger concern... It seems to get that wrong 68% of the time. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-09-30 07:29 |