Multi-cancer blood test as the first step for patients with non-specific symptoms
People with vague symptoms like fatigue and weight loss get many scans. A blood test could point to which organ to look at first, or safely reassure.
SYMPLIFY (Oxford) showed an MCED in symptomatic patients had high specificity and useful tissue-of-origin accuracy. Propose an RCT in Rapid Diagnostic Centre pathways: MCED-directed work-up versus standard work-up, with time to diagnosis, imaging use, and stage as endpoints.
- Most lethal cancers are found late · Screening exists for only a few cancers. Pancreatic, ovarian, liver, oesophageal and most lung cancers are found when cure is unlikely.
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