An analysis has been developed to identify 50 types of cancer: it will be available in the USA - ForumDaily
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Test developed to detect 50 types of cancer: it will be available in the USA

The British National Health Service is preparing to test extensively a blood test for cancer developed in the United States. Potentially, using the new method, it will be possible to identify 50 types of malignant tumors. It will be available in the US as well. Air force.

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Next year, 165 thousand residents of England will be offered testing. If the method proves to be effective, then by 2024, testing will be available to about a million Britons.

In the US, tests will also be carried out. There, the company plans to recruit about 6200 volunteers aged 50 and over. In the US, the test will also be available by 2021, but on a paid basis.

Testing by the British will be sponsored by an American development company, California-based Grail. The first to get the test will be residents of the United Kingdom aged 50 to 79 years and several thousand hospital patients in whom doctors will find symptoms of cancer. The health service says the new method could raise the percentage of early-stage cancers from half to 75%.

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Galleri's test, like many analogues in development, operates at the molecular level. This allows many cancers to be noticed before symptoms appear.

“If we can use a simple blood test to detect the presence of about 50 types of cancer, including ovarian and pancreatic cancer, which are already very difficult to treat by the time symptoms appear, it will mean a lot for the thousands of cancer patients who undergo treatment every week. a lot,” says health chief Sir Simon Stevens.

Scientists in several Western countries have been working on a universal test for many years. In the United States, several organizations are developing similar projects, including Johns Hopkins University.

Cancer Research UK, a British cancer research non-profit organization, welcomed plans to test the new test, citing that its effectiveness has not yet been proven.

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Cambridge University professor Paul Pharoah also told the BBC that the health service "should not invest in such tests until they have been proven effective."

The final results of the Galleri method tests will be summed up by 2023.

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