Host: Sana Raoof, MD, PhD

Guest: Candace T. Westgate, DO, MPH, FACOG

Guest: Mylynda Massart, MD, PhD

The last five years have seen exciting progress with liquid biopsy tests, with one of them being a screening tool for multi-cancer early detection that looks for methylation patterns that can detect more cancers earlier, even before symptoms appear.1,2 Learn how you can incorporate this screening tool into clinical practice with Drs. Sana Raoof, Candace Westgate, and Mylynda Massart. Dr. Raoof is a physician scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Westgate is the Medical Director of the AHEAD Program and Chief of Staff at Adventist Health Saint Helena in Northern California, and Dr. Massart is the Founder and Director of the UPMC’s Primary Care Precision Medicine Center.

References:

1. Nadauld LD, McDonnell CH 3rd, Beer TM, et al. The PATHFINDER Study: Assessment of the implementation of an investigational multi-cancer early detection test into clinical practice. Cancers (Basel). 2021;13(14):3501. Published 2021 Jul 13. doi:10.3390/cancers13143501
2. Liu MC, Oxnard GR, Klein EA, Swanton C, Seiden MV; CCGA Consortium. Sensitive and specific multi-cancer detection and localization using methylation signatures in cell-free DNA. Ann Oncol. 2020;31(6):745-759. doi:10.1016/j.annonc.2020.02.011