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by elektor 492 days ago
An update on that trial: https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1706

It doesn't look great.

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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.