Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers (Oct, 2025)
The trial followed 25,000 adults from the US and Canada over a year, with nearly one in 100 getting a positive result. For 62% of these cases, cancer was later confirmed.
Lead researcher Dr Nima Nabavizadeh, associate professor of radiation medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, said the data showed that the test could "fundamentally change" their approach to cancer screening.
Galleri promises to detect multiple cancers—but new evidence casts doubt on this much hyped blood test (August 2024))
The NHS is currently running a £150m trial of the test, funded by Grail and involving more than 100 000 participants in England.
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Documents leaked to The BMJ indicate that the criteria being used, unpublished until now, are unsuitable to justify a new national screening programme aimed at saving lives.
They show that even Mike Richards, the chair of the independent UK National Screening Committee, has privately voiced “serious concerns” to Amanda Pritchard, NHS England’s chief executive, about the trial and its ability to provide sufficient evidence “on whether the benefits of testing outweigh any potential harms and at reasonable cost.”
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Galleri promises to detect multiple cancers—but new evidence casts doubt on this much hyped blood test (August 2024))
~ https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1706Company site: https://www.galleri.com/what-is-galleri/types-of-cancer-dete...