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Cancer Prescreening Blood Tests: Do They Live Up To The Hype?
It means that this new technique is a good first step toward a reliable method of liquid cancer prescreening, but there is still a good deal more research that needs to be done. The results were good but not fantastic. In order to be truly be accepted as a liquid biopsy prescreening method, it needs to have a much higher success rate at detecting cancer cells in stage-1.
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At present, the sequencing itself is also quite expensive— a few thousand dollars for each round of 30k sequences, although this technology is becoming less expensive as time goes on.
For now, conventional methods like colonoscopies, mammograms, and more remain the most reliable for detecting cancer. But there is good reason to hope that the work of Dr. Velculescu and his team have opened up the door to a new era of early detection.
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