Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out

Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by bluGill on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:12AM (#27630997)

That this test is approved implies that it to some extent at least makes people live longer. There are a number of cancers that are easily treatable in stage one - but they have no symptoms then, and so often kill people because by the time it is discovered it is too late.

False positives are a concern, but one that is manageable. People should get regular checkups, if something comes up we just do more testing as needed.

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by rwmj on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:26AM (#27631160)

It's approved to be rolled out to a medical trial. You can read what the journal says here: https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(21)02046...

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by bluGill on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:59PM (#27633406)

I'll stand corrected.

Though that makes this discussion completely worthless - without trial results we have no idea if it is a useful test. Once we have those results we will know something about how useful/useless might be.

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