{"id":883,"date":"2023-02-07T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=883"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:20:10","slug":"so-called-holy-grail-cancer-test-would-miss-thousands-of-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"So-called \u2018holy grail\u2019 cancer test would miss thousands of cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a 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href=\"mailto:?subject=So-called%20%E2%80%98holy%20grail%E2%80%99%20cancer%20test%20would%20miss%20thousands%20of%20cases&amp;body=Newspaper%20reports%20have%20hailed%20a%20blood%20test%20for%20detecting%20several%20types%20of%20cancer%20as%20the%20%E2%80%9Choly%20grail%20of%20cancer%20research%E2%80%9D%2C%20but%20it%20is%20far%20from%20accurate%20enough%0D%0Aread%20more:%20https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2170601-so-called-holy-grail-cancer-test-would-miss-thousands-of-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A blood test that can detect several types of cancer before a person falls ill has been hailed as a \u201choly grail\u201d by many newspapers, but to be useful it will need to be refined to become much more accurate, otherwise it could fail to detect large numbers of cancer cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2170601-so-called-holy-grail-cancer-test-would-miss-thousands-of-cases\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2170601-so-called-holy-grail-cancer-test-would-miss-thousands-of-cases\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blood test that can detect several types of cancer before a person falls ill has been hailed as a \u201choly grail\u201d by many newspapers, but to be useful it will need to be refined to become much more accurate, otherwise it could fail to detect large numbers of cancer cases. Original article: https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2170601-so-called-holy-grail-cancer-test-would-miss-thousands-of-cases\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}