What You Need To Know About Blood Tests For Cancer

Multicancer early detection tests hold great promise for finding cancer early enough to save lives, but there are caveats ...
thorax.bmj

Combining tuberculin skin test with follow-on interferon gamma release assay markedly improves screening of household contacts

Introduction In Hong Kong, tuberculin skin test (TST) with a 15 mm cut-off was used at 0 and 3 months for contact screening, but half of future tuberculosis cases might be missed. Follow-on interferon ...
Nature

Cancer blood tests are everywhere — here's why you should be cautious

A man in a car looks down at his phone. “No cancer signal detected,” says a message on the screen. The man closes his eyes and smiles in relief. Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the ...
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Listen to your gut: Kansas woman’s colon cancer test was negative. It was wrong

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The American Cancer Society is seeing a concerning trend: Colorectal cancer is rising among younger adults. From 2013 to 2022, overall colorectal cancer rates dropped by about 1 ...
The Lancet

Effectiveness of rVSV-ZEBOV vaccination during the 2018–20 Ebola virus disease epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective test-negative study

bGeneral Direction of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene, and Prevention, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo cNational Program of Care and Follow-up of Survivors, Ministry of ...
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Listen to your gut: Kansas woman's colon cancer test was negative. It was wrong

Local groups, including Leading Kansas and Defend Democracy ICT, hosted No Kings Day 3.0, encouraging nonviolent action and civic engagement. Attending a game at Equity Bank Park this season is about ...