Harpal Kumar, president of the European wing of Grail, a health care company whose mission is to detect cancer earlier, says they can detect more than 50 types of cancer with a single blood sample.
the world’s leading cause of death: 1 in 2 of us will be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetime. Earlier diagnosis drastically improves survival, but unfortunately unscreened cancers account for 80 to 90 percent of cancer deaths, says Harpal Kumar, president of the European wing ofOf the more than 200 types of cancer, we currently only screen for cervical, breast, and bowel cancer, says Kumar.
The dream is a single test that can identify every cancer from a single draw of blood—and that’s roughly what Grail has been developing: a test that is sensitive to early stage cancers, can detect and locate many different cancer types, gives very few false positives, and can hone in on the most serious cancers.is the result. The company says it can detect more than 50 types of cancer with a single blood sample.
—to demonstrate that the test works at scale “We will get first data from this trial next year, then if that data looks good, they will extend the pilot to a million people over the next few years, then complete it in the next three years,” says Kumar.
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