New screening blood test for 50 cancers

Posted by northoftheborder @northoftheborder, Oct 17 5:25pm

This is still at the trial phase, but the results are very promising. It's a simple blood test that can screen for cancers that currently have no early detection, like stomach, ovarian, pancreatic, and bowel, and potentially catch them at stage 1 when they're easily treatable.

My uninformed guess is that it would take at least 5 more years to get into general use (likely longer), but it's a bright ray of hope for the people who come after us.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205g21n1zzo

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samclembeau | @samclembeau | Oct 18 2:28pm

That would be wonderful.

myoga | @myoga | Oct 19 6:02am

That’s wonderful! I just hope that the funding cut is not affecting the progress. Thank you for the good news!

Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Oct 31 6:29pm

@northoftheborder, I'm proud to say that our very own Mayo Clinic Oncologist Minetta Liu, M.D. was involved in the development of the new test, Galleri for detecting cancer.

- Early Cancer Detection Test Studied at Mayo Clinic https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/groundbreaking-early-cancer-detection-test-studied-at-mayo-clinic-introduced-nationally/

Also see this discussion in the Cancer group on Connect:
- Early cancer detection Galleri test: Anybody using it?https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/galleri-test/