{"id":110302,"date":"2020-07-21T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T06:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-blood-test-detects-5-types-of-cancer-years-before-standard-diagnosis"},"modified":"2020-07-21T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T06:06:16","slug":"new-blood-test-detects-5-types-of-cancer-years-before-standard-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-blood-test-detects-5-types-of-cancer-years-before-standard-diagnosis","title":{"rendered":"New Blood Test Detects 5 Types of Cancer Years Before Standard Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-blood-test-detects-5-types-of-cancer-years-before-standard-diagnosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A blood test has been shown to detect five types of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"cancer\">cancer<\/a> years before the diseases could be spotted using conventional diagnostic methods, according to a study published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by a Sino-US startup, the test found cancers in 91 percent of people who showed no symptoms when the blood sample was collected but were diagnosed one-to-four years later with stomach, esophageal, colon, lung or liver cancer, researchers reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-17316-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Nature Communications<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe immediate focus is to test people at higher risk, based on family history, age or other known risk factors,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2020-07-non-invasive-blood-cancer-years-conventional.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said co-author Kun Zhang<\/a>, head of the bioengineering department at the University of California San Diego and an equity holder in Singlera Genomics, which developed the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blood test has been shown to detect five types of cancer years before the diseases could be spotted using conventional diagnostic methods, according to a study published Tuesday. Developed by a Sino-US startup, the test found cancers in 91 percent of people who showed no symptoms when the blood sample was collected but were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}