Grail’s cancer blood test faces high-stakes FDA review
Grail Inc.'s cancer-detecting blood test is undergoing a high-stakes FDA review to evaluate its effectiveness in screening healthy individuals for multiple cancers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A blood test designed to spot signs of multiple cancers in apparently healthy people faces its first major regulatory hurdle Wednesday as advisers to the U.S. government review how well it works. Grail Inc.’s test looks for DNA fragments shed by tumor cells, an emerging approach to screening that aims to detect...
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