Feasibility of blood testing combined with PET-CT to screen for cancer and guide intervention.
Science
; 369(6499)2020 07 03.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32345712
Cancer treatments are often more successful when the disease is detected early. We evaluated the feasibility and safety of multicancer blood testing coupled with positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) imaging to detect cancer in a prospective, interventional study of 10,006 women not previously known to have cancer. Positive blood tests were independently confirmed by a diagnostic PET-CT, which also localized the cancer. Twenty-six cancers were detected by blood testing. Of these, 15 underwent PET-CT imaging and nine (60%) were surgically excised. Twenty-four additional cancers were detected by standard-of-care screening and 46 by neither approach. One percent of participants underwent PET-CT imaging based on false-positive blood tests, and 0.22% underwent a futile invasive diagnostic procedure. These data demonstrate that multicancer blood testing combined with PET-CT can be safely incorporated into routine clinical care, in some cases leading to surgery with intent to cure.
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Assunto principal:
Programas de Rastreamento
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Detecção Precoce de Câncer
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Tomografia por Emissão de Pósitrons combinada à Tomografia Computadorizada
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Testes Hematológicos
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Neoplasias
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article