{"id":150768,"date":"2022-11-22T01:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T07:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/evaluating-cell-free-dna-based-blood-tests-for-early-detection-of-multiple-cancers"},"modified":"2022-11-22T01:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T07:25:58","slug":"evaluating-cell-free-dna-based-blood-tests-for-early-detection-of-multiple-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/evaluating-cell-free-dna-based-blood-tests-for-early-detection-of-multiple-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating cell-free DNA-based blood tests for early detection of multiple cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evaluating-cell-free-dna-based-blood-tests-for-early-detection-of-multiple-cancers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cancer-cell\/fulltext\/S1535-6108(22)00513-X\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cancer Cell<\/em><\/a>, researchers assessed several approaches for a circulating cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid (cfDNA)-based multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test. Defining the clinical limit of detection (LOD) based on circulating tumor allele fraction (cTAF) enables the comparison of different approaches.<\/p>\n<p>An MCED test is a blood test that helps early detection of a shared cancer signal across multiple cancers using blood samples. Currently, available MCED tests have a low false-positive rate of less than 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study published in Cancer Cell, researchers assessed several approaches for a circulating cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid (cfDNA)-based multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test. Defining the clinical limit of detection (LOD) based on circulating tumor allele fraction (cTAF) enables the comparison of different approaches. An MCED test is a blood test that helps early detection [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150768","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}