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Amin I. Kassis has devised a relatively simple blood test that can detect several different types of cancer. Kassis envisions the test eventually being routinely available in labs, to be used for both screening and follow-up after treatment. Click "enlarge" to see a slide of the type of data collected by the test.

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HMS professor devises single test for cancers

Imagine visiting a doctor’s office five years from now and, as a routine part of your annual physical, getting an accurate test that can tell whether you have cancer long before you have either symptoms or tumors detectable by other methods.

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