Once seen mainly in old people who are heavy smokers, lung cancer is now increasingly striking young adults aged under 50 years who have never smoked. But outdated medical mindset often fails to suspect lung cancer in young people costing many young lives
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A recent study has shown that a simple blood test can detect traces of cancer more than three years before it is clinically diagnosed. This is more than early detection. But screening tests will need to be 50 times more sensitive to reliably detect cancer this early
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An AI-powered, lightweight, diagnostic, web-based App — CerviSpectraDiag — developed by researchers from IIT Kharagpur and KIIT University for early detection of cervical cancer has an accuracy of 84.73%. It offers diagnosis in near real time while maintaining privacy and data security as processing of spectral data of cervical tissue happens at the device level
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Liquid biopsy offers a suite of benefits that are hard to match with tissue sampling, such as minimal invasiveness, repeatability, being more comprehensive, faster turnaround time, and cost-effectiveness
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