Tuesday 25 July 2017

A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early

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A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early

12:10 minutes · TED2017

Jimmy Lin is developing technologies to catch cancer months to years before current methods. He shares a breakthrough technique that looks for small signals of cancer's presence via a simple blood test, detecting the recurrence of some forms of the disease 100 days earlier than traditional methods. It could be a ray of hope in a fight where early detection makes all the difference.

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