Scientists develop blood test that can check 50 types of cancer

1 Apr 2020

Scientists develop blood test that can check 50 types of cancer

Scientists develop blood test that can check 50 types of cancerIn a life-changing medical breakthrough, scientists have developed a blood test that can detect 50 types of cancer.

This blood test tested samples from more than 4000 people, some of whom had cancer.

The test results detected cancer at 96% accuracy. This included bowel, lung and ovarian cancer.

Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, working with The Francis Crick Institute and University College London have worked on this study.
 	The test detects DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) in the blood that cancerous tumours leak into the bloodstream.
 	It not only detects cancer but can also pinpoint the exact type of cancer.
 	This can help detect cancer early so that it can be treated quickly. Early detection of cancer is very important to fight it.

Scientists and doctors and excited by this new development as they have been waiting for something like this for so long.

However, this new test will still need to be tried and researched a lot before it can be used widely.
Here is a video on how do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFEoCFDi-w

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