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Commentary: A Blood Test That Screens for Multiple Cancers at Once Promises to Boost Early Detection
Channel News Asia ^

Posted on 11/03/2022 2:35:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Multicancer early detection tests are likely to transform cancer screening in the near future, particularly if they receive strong government support, says a researcher.

Detecting cancer early before it spreads throughout the body can be lifesaving. This is why doctors recommend regular screening for several common cancer types, using a variety of methods. Colonoscopies, for example, screen for colon cancer, while mammograms screen for breast cancer.

While important, getting all these tests done can be logistically challenging, expensive and sometimes uncomfortable for patients. But what if a single blood test could screen for most common cancer types all at once?

This is the promise of multicancer early detection tests, or MCEDs. This year, US President Joe Biden identified developing MCED tests as a priority for the Cancer Moonshot, a US$1.8 billion federal effort to reduce the cancer death rate and improve the quality of life of cancer survivors and those living with cancer.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: bloodtests; cancer; health; screening

1 posted on 11/03/2022 2:35:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Theranos!


2 posted on 11/03/2022 2:37:34 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: nickcarraway

Post vaxxine this will become an extremely important test.


3 posted on 11/03/2022 2:39:49 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Everybody vaxxed was injured, your degree of damage and timing may differ)
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To: nickcarraway

Joe Biden said he was going to cure cancer in 2008.

We are still waiting.


4 posted on 11/03/2022 2:40:36 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Maybe, he did. Maybe Hunter is marketing it.


5 posted on 11/03/2022 2:42:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

They’ve been touting this super blood test for years... I haven’t been offered any such test.


6 posted on 11/03/2022 2:43:05 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: nickcarraway

The Hard Facts about Cancer and Diet with Professor Thomas Seyfried
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ebPZP9hBPA


Cancer is a metabolic disease. He discussed how to change your diet to stop cancer.


7 posted on 11/03/2022 2:52:55 PM PDT by RonEB
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To: nickcarraway

A perfect example of clickbait.

This “story” has been around for literally years and it is nowhere near coming to pass. Of course that never stops off the wall websites from rerunning it as a news item in order to get advertising clicks.


8 posted on 11/03/2022 2:55:29 PM PDT by Warriorposter
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To: glorgau

Theranos, indeed.

Good analogy. And faster than I could get there, too.


9 posted on 11/03/2022 3:05:32 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: nickcarraway

Finding Cancer cure has been a handsome funding source for researchers for many decades.

The treatments for cancer are so obscenely expensive and profitable to pharma, doctors and other support people, and I know this firsts hand witnessing my wife’s treatments for 5 years, I am now convinced they will never find a cure or prevention. Cancer is just a very big profit machine to be killed.


10 posted on 11/03/2022 3:26:22 PM PDT by entropy12
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To: entropy12

I’m convinced they have buried many cures already.


11 posted on 11/03/2022 5:04:24 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: nickcarraway
particularly if they receive strong government support

I stopped reading right there.

12 posted on 11/03/2022 6:14:01 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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We have had this test for dogs for two years now:
https://www.dvm360.com/view/new-cancer-screening-test-for-dogs-now-available


13 posted on 11/03/2022 6:21:02 PM PDT by LTC.Ret (I was MAGA when MAGA wasn't cool)
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