Multi-cancer blood test spots two in three cases in UK study
A blood test for over 50 types of cancer correctly identified the disease in two-thirds of cases in a major trial in England and Wales.
By Dasha Afanasieva / Bloomberg
The study evaluated more than 5,000 adult patients who were referred for urgent tests with suspected symptoms for gynecological, lung or gastrointestinal cancer, or who had non-specific symptoms. The test correctly diagnosed 244 people out of 368 who were diagnosed with cancer through other methods.
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