New research supports blood detection as a way to look for tumor signs. The United States will use it to improve the percentage of people who access these studies.
In Argentina, the routine tests available are colonoscopy and occult blood tests. Colon cancer is the most common type of tumor, behind breast cancer, and represents 12.1 percent of all tumors. The lack of adequate controls has caused mortality in the population under 50 years of age to grow in recent years, says a leading expert.