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Nickolas Papadopoulos, PhD, on Liquid Biopsy to Screen for Multiple Cancer Types

AACR Virtual Annual Meeting 2020 I

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Nickolas Papadopoulos, PhD, of Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses a first-of-its-kind prospective study that evaluated a screening blood test in more than 10,000 older women with no history of cancer. The test, called DETECT-A, identified 10 different cancer types, 65% of which were early-stage disease (Abstract CT022).



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