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Can blood tests help to detect early cancers

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

Testing, testing, testing – can blood tests help to detect early cancers? With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the importance of testing, and our capacity to undertake it at large scale, can we use these testing strategies for earlier diagnosis of cancer? By Professor Maarten IJzerman and Professor Sarah-Jane Dawson, University of Melbourne and Peter MacCallum […]

Blood tests could predict bowel cancer return

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Hippocratic Post

Blood tests could predict how long it takes until bowel cancer returns based on the same principle used in forecasting the weather, a new study has found. The blood tests, or ‘liquid biopsies’, could also pick out people unlikely to respond to the drug in the first place. Researchers developed a computer model that can […]