Cancer’s genetic fingerprints may lurk in people’s blood long before they find out about the disease. It’s possible to spot tumor DNA more than three years before a person is diagnosed with cancer, ...

Figure 1: Limiting dilution series linearity. The measured PVAF for each replicate at each target PVAF dilution level created from the LoD clinical-contrived sample are plotted (black filled circles).

Researchers are studying tests called liquid biopsies, which can provide vital information about cancer genes using only a blood sample. A blood test to find cancer even before it shows any symptoms ...

A new blood test can identify cancers of the head and neck caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) up to 10 years before symptoms appear. This is the discovery of Mass General Brigham researchers who ...

A novel, blood-based test developed using fragmentomic features of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) detects colorectal cancer (CRC) with a 90.4% sensitivity and shows consistent performance across stages and ...