Cancer is one of the most terrifying, and one of the most dangerous diseases of all time.
It's so versatile that it can affect many different parts of our body - our stomach, lungs, skin, prostate, breast or bowel.
Cancer is not always deadly - but sadly, that is often the case.
Generally, cancer can be treated more easily if it's diagnosed at an early stage.
But often, it's already too late for that!
So what if I told you that a new method of detecting cancer will revolutionize the medical world ?
The new procedure called "Liquid Biopsy" will be able detect almost all types of cancer with 96% accuracy!
That's groundbreaking and might change the lives of millions!
The method itself is not available to the public yet, but it will be starting 2019.
This ambitious project has been initiated by Jeff Huber, former Vice President of Google and co-creator of Google Maps.
After losing his wife to cancer, he dedicated lots of time and effort and became CEO of the cancer-research company Grail, that wants to make this vision a reality.
$100 Million have been raised to make the Liquid Biopsy method and tests possible.
In an Interview with Forbes, Huber actually said that this technology might have saved his wife.
“If GRAIL had existed previously (...) when she got her annual physical exam and did a blood test anyway, and if the results had come back then saying that you have early stage cancer, there’s a very good chance that the outcome for her could have been different."
Jeff Huber
The current methods used to detect cancer in the blood are expensive, invasive and take a long time.
They are based on the principle that some cells are flaking off of the tumor, and their DNA can be detected within the patient's blood for a couple of hours.
But the new method "Liquid Biopsy" would be able to detect one tumor cell in as many as one billion blood cells!
This is possible due to DNA sequencing, which has advanced so much that you can now reveal much smaller amounts of DNA in the blood.
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