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by Tade0 716 days ago
You'd need a particularly good (and cheap!) screening method to catch them before they become fatal.

Digestive tract cancers in particular are often confused by patients with other, benign issues and are therefore diagnosed too late.

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https://grail.com/ seems like the path we're on for that sort of screening (blood borne cancer biomarker surveillance)? AP-1 tweaks + mRNA and immunotherapy protocols for detected cancer + continued cancer screening developments might be a material longevity improvement. Typically, you're trying to die before any cancer gets you long term, so the need is to continually improve cancer detection and treatment.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/biomarke...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9074993/