A Blood Test Can Detect 10 Cancers. But Is It Ready for Prime Time?: A new blood test shows promise for detecting many types of cancer, even in the early stages of the disease, according to a new study.
In the study, researchers found that the test could detect 10 types of cancer and that it was 80 to 90 percent accurate for some cancer types.
However, much more research is needed before doctors will be able to use the test on their patients, experts say. [10 Do's and Don'ts to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer]
"This is a very promising study," said Dr. Kazuaki Takabe, the Alfiero Foundation endowed chair in breast oncology at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, who was not involved with the study. However, Takabe stressed that the work is very preliminary. "Clearly, this is just the beginning," Takabe said. "We need more and more and more samples" to determine the true accuracy of the test.
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