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by qgin 488 days ago
NHS is evaluating it now in a trial. https://www.nhs-galleri.org
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An update on that trial: https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1706

It doesn't look great.

Absolutely right! This test is hyped. It has abysmally low sensitivity of 16% to detect stage I cancers and overall 44% for cancers of other stages. It is extremely poor sensitivity for any detection test.