#early-cancer-detection

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fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

A Silicon Valley engineer cracked the code to find signs of colon cancer in your blood

At first, cancer is a quiet disease. Inside the body, cells are aggressively multiplying out of control, changing everything. But on the outside, there's nothing special to see or feel. Not yet. For Guardant co-CEO Helmy Eltoukhy, that invisibility looked like an engineering challenge. What if cancer could be detected early - through blood tests - before you even knew it was there?
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fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

The Irish Independent's View: BreastCheck figures highlight further failures in women's health

BreastCheck missed targets by 60,000 over two years, endangering early cancer detection and requiring urgent staffing and resource investment to prevent avoidable deaths.
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