{"id":168850,"date":"2023-08-01T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cell-free-dna-blood-test-poised-to-have-significant-impact-on-crc-screening"},"modified":"2023-08-01T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:26:21","slug":"cell-free-dna-blood-test-poised-to-have-significant-impact-on-crc-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/cell-free-dna-blood-test-poised-to-have-significant-impact-on-crc-screening","title":{"rendered":"Cell-free DNA blood test \u2018poised to have significant impact\u2019 on CRC screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-free-dna-blood-test-poised-to-have-significant-impact-on-crc-screening2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 A cell-free DNA blood-based test displayed 83% sensitivity for colorectal cancer detection and 90% specificity in an average-risk population, similar to the performance of current noninvasive screening options.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/gastroenterology\/20230503\/qa-screeningbased-test-for-colorectal-cancer-is-only-as-good-as-its-uptake\" id=rId11 target=_blank>\u201cColorectal cancer<\/a> screening is recommended for everyone in the United States,\u201d <strong>Daniel <\/strong><strong>Chung,<\/strong><strong> MD,<\/strong> director of the High-Risk GI Cancer Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical School, told attendees at Digestive Disease Week. \u201cBut, despite the widespread availability of many screening options, there remain persistent and significant barriers, and unfortunately, screening rates remain suboptimal. In fact, only 59% of eligible individuals aged 45 and over are adherent, which is well below the acceptance target rate of 80%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cA <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/gastroenterology\/20230110\/burning-rock-secures-fda-breakthrough-device-designation-for-multicancer-blood-test\" id=rId12 target=_blank>blood-based screening test<\/a> that can be completed as part of a routine health care visit presents a unique and attractive opportunity to increase adherence to colon cancer screening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 A cell-free DNA blood-based test displayed 83% sensitivity for colorectal cancer detection and 90% specificity in an average-risk population, similar to the performance of current noninvasive screening options. \u201cColorectal cancer screening is recommended for everyone in the United States,\u201d Daniel Chung, MD, director of the High-Risk GI Cancer Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168850","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=168850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}