•Sensitive blood biopsy detects cancer and its recurrences earlier

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Using spinal fluid and blood, liquid biopsies are under rapid development to improve cancer therapy.  Geneticists at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have perfected an ultra-sensitive, machine-learning liquid biopsy technique for detecting and analyzing cancer DNA circulating in blood.  The system enhances and amplifies the information obtainable from tiny concentrations of circulating genetic material. This permits advanced warning and quantitation of a cancer’s metastatic spread, measurement of its eradication with therapy, and a timely signal of its unfortunate recurrence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03040-4

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