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Cancer could be detected three years before diagnosis with experimental blood test

By FOX News  
   June 18, 2025

A new Johns Hopkins study, published in Cancer Discovery and partly funded by the NIH, found that genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years prior to a cancer diagnosis. The researchers analyzed plasma samples from a large Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study to assess risk factors for heart attack, stroke, heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.

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