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A new experimental cancer test is already being studied on humans and works by examining blood proteins instead of tumor DNA. It may be possible to detect early-stage cancers with accuracy.
“If the assay performance in future, well-designed sequential studies is anywhere close to what this preliminary study suggests, then it could really be a gamechanger,” Dr. Mangesh Thorat, of the Centre for Cancer Prevention at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, said.