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Blood Tests Can Detect Cancer

April 17, 2024
Developing blood tests could detect cancer earlier, and the technology may be covered by Medicare soon.
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A medical advancement may revolutionize cancer detection. Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests are blood tests that detect early cancer signals. As per UT’s MD Anderson Cancer Center, this technology uses machine-learning...
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Jenny, did you know that cancer is the leading cause of
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death for Latinos in the USA and it's not dating Latina women
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That's crazy, right?
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Most of these cancers are preventable.
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But honestly, like myself,
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like I'm never getting tested.
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And I think that's the thing with Latino,
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especially Latino men because like my dad never likes to go to
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the hospital. It's like a chore for him to go get
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like to go get his physicals and you kinda have to be
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like go go. So it's like a Latino man thing that
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they never wanna go.
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That sounds like me in the future because I'm scared of needles
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and yeah, but they have a new blood test that scientists
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say can detect cancer signals early.
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Yeah. So I might,
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I might make it guys due to this new test.
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There are 20 tests in development right now but it doesn't work
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for all the cancers.
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But, but it's like they're getting close,
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they're getting close. The technology isn't FDA approved yet and
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and it isn't covered by insurance,
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but there's a bill in Congress right now and it could approve
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it. We're getting there.
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It's good news because right now it's sad.
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There's so many people with cancer that I,
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that I personally know that I'm just like,
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dude, like what's happening and now,
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and now with this thing,
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man, it makes a difference.
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Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see what happens.