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    Dr. Mukharjee Madivada

    Senior Interventional Cardiologist | Managing Director, Pulse Heart Center | Director, Pulse Heart Charitable Trust | Pulse Heart Center

    about 4 hours ago

    It is said that a single blood test can detect more than…

    It is said that a single blood test can detect more than 50 different cancers. Sounds like something everyone should get done, doesn't it? But a study involving over 1,42,000 people is genuinely making us reconsider that assumption. This test is called the Galleri test, developed by a company named GRAIL. MCED stands for Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test, and it's designed to detect multiple types of cancer through a single blood draw. Essentially, small fragments of DNA circulating in our bloodstream are analyzed for methylation patterns, which the test uses to determine whether cancer may be present. So what did we actually learn from

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