A cutting-edge laboratory test can detect cancer years before diagnosis and potentially improve treatment outcomes, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University. A multicancer early detection laboratory test was able to detect genetic material from tumors in the bloodstream as far as three years before a conventional diagnosis. Lead study author Yuxuan Wang noted that cancers are usually much less advanced with very early detection and are more easily treated and cured.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.