New type of blood test may help diagnose cancer before symptoms appear

[Mike Wehner]

• Researchers at Johns Hopkins University helped develop a blood test that can detect cancers before the patient becomes symptomatic.
• The test, which is still in development will not be ready for widespread use for some time, spotted cancers that other screening methods missed.
• However, it also produced false positives and false negatives.
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In the battle against cancer, time is everything. Catching the disease early can be the difference between life and death, so as screening technology gets more accurate, more lives may be saved. Aside from the actual treatment of the disease, the timing with which it is discovered is the most important variable in determining a patient's outcome.

Now, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have developed a blood test that they say could help detect cancers before patients even begin to experience symptoms. It would be the ultimate screening tool, and it's the subject of a new research paper published in the journal Science.

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