For doctors and patients, the Holy Grail of medicine would be a simple blood or saliva test to detect all types of cancer before symptoms or sickness appears. Doctors could screen and treat patients earlier in the course of disease. As Dr. Lisa Stempel, director of the high-risk cancer screening program at Rush University Medical Center, told the Tribune recently, “The goal of all screening is to find cancer early when we can treat it.”
Is multicancer testing valuable? Questions to ask before getting screened
