The vision of a single blood test that could screen for dozens of different cancers has tantalized oncologists for more than a decade . The science has advanced at a rapid clip: What began by analyzing levels of proteins in the blood has progressed to scrutinizing tiny amounts of DNA and feeding the data into algorithms that can highlight changes suggestive of cancer. It’s led to a number of eye-catching developments. In one study , a blood test called Mercury was able to correctly identify 13

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