About 400 people who signed up for a cancer-detection blood test from Grail were incorrectly told they may have the disease, according to the company, which blamed the mistakes on a partner’s software glitch
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Grail said its telemedicine vendor sent inaccurate forms because of a software glitchGrail, a developer of multi-cancer early-detection blood tests, says about 400 customers were notified mistakenly that they may have the disease.Cancer blood-test maker Grail said about 400 customers were mistakenly notified that its test detected a cancer signal in them, which the company attributed to a partner’s software glitch.
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