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Re:U.S. plans trial of early detection blood tests for multi... by koheripbal on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:04AM (#31848487)
As someone likely in tech, you should know that bad ideas often still get funding and positive PR.
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Re:U.S. plans trial of early detection blood tests for multi... by JohnJamesRambo on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:40PM (#31855975)
No I was in cancer research and this field isn't new at all. People have been working on it and finding ways to avoid false negatives and positives and increased specificity for a long time. Tumor cells shed all kinds of aberrant proteins and glycosylation patterns that you can detect in the blood.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7760063/

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