International study: Blood test detected cancer at early stages in thousands of participants

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Early detection of cancer is considered a key factor in treatment success, but currently, effective screening tests exist only for a limited number of tumors — breast, colon, lung, cervical, and prostate. About 75% of deaths are caused by tumors that currently have no early detection tests, and therefore most patients are diagnosed at advanced stages, when treatment options are more limited.The Galleri blood test works by identifying "unique signatures" in DNA originating from cancer cells. The

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