Can Cancer Blood Tests Live Up To Promise Of Saving Lives
After a repeat blood test, PET scan, and needle biopsy, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “I cried,” said the retired real estate agent. “Just two tears and I thought, ‘Okay, now what do we do?’ The Canby Oregon resident had volunteered to have a blood test marked as a new frontier in cancer screening for healthy people. Looks for cancer by checking for DNA fragments that are discarded by tumor cells....