Episode 45: Your Blood Shows Cancer Is Back 8 Months Before a Scan Does.
The technology exists. The blood draw is simple. So why won't most oncologists order it?
Amy Delson has been treated for cancer four times. She's currently in active treatment. She's also a longtime breast cancer patient advocate — she reviews research grants for the Department of Defense, sits on lab teams asking researchers to do fewer biopsies on patients, and edits the informed-consent forms patients sign before clinical trials.
She can't have mammograms anymore. So she fought to get a circulating tumor DNA test — ctDNA — through a researcher she works with, because her own community…
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