Created a blood test that detects 50 different tumors

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 31 - A blood test finds over 50 tumors at an early stage, even before the symptoms appear, well 12 of the most aggressive and difficult to diagnose early such as pancreatic cancer. It is the extraordinary result reported on the Annals of Oncology by Michael Seiden of the US company Oncology.
The test is based on the study of tumor DNA circulating in the blood through software that exploits artificial intelligence. The program was developed based on the blood samples of 1,500 people with untreated tumors and equally healthy individuals. Subsequently, the software was tested by analyzing 650 blood samples from contumor patients and 610 samples from healthy control subjects. The system turned out to be 'super specific' in making the diagnosis: it is only wrong 0.7% of the time diagnosing a tumor that does not actually exist (false positive).
"This is a decisive study - said the director of Fabrice André magazine of the Institut Gustave Roussy in France - and represents a first step towards the development of easy screening tests". "Early detection of over 50% of cancers could save millions of lives every year around the world," he concluded. (ANSA).