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New York Post
10 hours ago
- Health
- New York Post
New blood test can detect cancer 3 years before you start showing symptoms
Want to B-positive about your health? Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a cutting-edge blood test that can detect signs of cancer three years before any symptoms surface. The breakthrough could help doctors diagnose cancer long before today's screening tools allow, giving patients a better shot at beating the disease. Advertisement 3 Blood-based screening could one day compliment existing screening methods. Vadim – 'Three years earlier provides time for intervention,' Dr. Yuxuan Wang, an assistant professor of oncology and lead researcher of the study, said in a statement. 'The tumors are likely to be much less advanced and more likely to be curable,' she added. For the study, Wang and her colleagues analyzed blood samples from 52 people involved in a large National Institutes of Health-funded research project on cardiovascular health. Advertisement Half were later diagnosed with cancer within six months of giving blood. The rest stayed cancer-free. The researchers ran the samples through a multicancer early detection (MCED) test, which uses ultra-sensitive sequencing to hunt for tiny shards of mutated DNA that tumors leak into the bloodstream. It detected signs of cancer in 8 of the 26 future patients. Advertisement 3 Cancerous tumors shed genetic material into the bloodstream. Sebastian Kaulitzki – But here's the kicker: Six of those patients had older blood samples on file — and in four of them, early signs of cancer were already lurking more than three years before their diagnosis. 'This study shows the promise of MCED tests in detecting cancers very early, and sets the benchmark sensitivities required for their success,' said senior author Dr. Bert Vogelstein, a professor of oncology and co-director of the Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins. Advertisement Right now, no MCED tests are fully approved by the FDA for widespread use, though some are commercially available under looser rules as Laboratory Developed Tests. While MCED tests aren't intended to replace standard screenings, experts say they could play an important role in spotting cancers earlier — especially those, like colon cancer, that are often diagnosed at advanced stages. 3 Several companies are developing MCED blood tests. Alexander Raths – 'Detecting cancers years before their clinical diagnosis could help provide management with a more favourable outcome,' said Nickolas Papadopoulos, a professor of oncology and senior author of the study. 'Of course, we need to determine the appropriate clinical follow-up after a positive test for such cancers,' he added. Among the eight participants whose cancers the MCED test detected months before diagnosis, five died from the disease — underscoring how deadly cancer can be when caught too late. For example, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer is 99% when detected early, but drops to less than 32% once the disease has spread, according to the American Cancer Society. Advertisement Excluding non-melanoma skin cancers, the group estimates more than 2 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the US in 2025 — with over 618,000 people expected to die from the disease. That breaks down to roughly 1,700 deaths every single day.
Russia Today
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
‘Ukrainian agent' involved in Russian general's assassination detained – FSB (VIDEO)
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported that it detained a Ukrainian operative who is suspected of planting a bomb that killed a Russian two-star general serving as deputy operations chief of the General Staff on Friday. In a statement released on Saturday, the Russian authorities said the explosive device, which was hidden in a parked car, was activated remotely from Ukraine. The man, identified as Ignat Kuzin, who has a residence permit in Ukraine, purchased the Volkswagen Golf used in the assassination of Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, the FSB said. According to the officials, the suspect retrieved the components for the bomb from a cache and planted the explosive device inside the vehicle. Moskalik, the deputy chief of operations of Russia's General Staff, was killed outside his residence in Balashikha, a suburb east of Moscow. Russia's Investigative Committee said that the explosive device was packed with metal fragments for additional lethality. The news agency TASS reported that investigators estimated the yield of the bomb as the equivalent of 300 grams of TNT. Along with the statement, the FSB released a video depicting the suspect's apprehension, as well as his subsequent interrogation. In it, the 42-year-old man said that he had been 'recruited by Ukrainian special services, by a handler, Vadim, in Kiev Region in April 2023.' According to the testimony, Kuzin arrived in Moscow in September of the same year. 'In February 2025, I bought the Volkswagen on [Vadim's] orders,' the suspect recounted, adding that later that month he received the coordinates of the cache containing the explosive materials and a camera. The man said that the 'explosion itself was carried out remotely by Vadim the handler.' On Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that the 'Kiev regime once again shows its essence' by continuing to 'engage in terrorist activities' on Russian soil. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova similarly stated that should Ukrainian involvement in the assassination of the general be confirmed, it would demonstrate the 'barbarian and treacherous nature of the Kiev regime.' Ukraine is betting on escalating the conflict and 'irresponsibly ignoring constructive proposals' to settle it through diplomacy, the diplomat noted. Last December, a bomb that Russian authorities similarly linked to Ukrainian special services killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who served as the commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces. He was assassinated alongside an aide as they were coming out of a building in Moscow. The attack involved an explosive device hidden inside an electric scooter, which was placed next to the entrance and monitored through a camera set up in a parked car, which enabled the perpetrators to detonate it remotely.
