A new blood test that can detect up to 50 cancers from a single blood sample is gaining traction in the United States.
In addition to a prescription from a health care provider, people who want the test will have to pay for it out of pocket, around $950. The test is not covered by medical insurance, and the FDA has not approved it.cancer screeningsThis is a “screening” test for people who do not have cancer, and so it is intended to be used by primary care doctors, Rebbeck says.
According to the company, the test also predicts where the cancer sign is coming from “with high accuracy,” which helps guide the next steps to diagnosis. “Not everybody will have an actual cancer, but they may undergo many tests, with a lot of stress and cost and still not find anything. I can tell you every time someone undergoes a test looking for cancer, that is not an easy day,” he says.
Rebbeck says the test is still “relatively poor for detecting very early cancers, so it will need additional tweaking before it really achieves the goal of multi-cancer early detection.”
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