Abstract
Despite significant advances in cancer therapeutics, cancer is still the second leading cause of death and is poised to become the leading cause of death globally [3]. Early cancer detection has been recognized as critical to improving outcomes and lessening the burden of cure [4, 6–11], but effective screening paradigms exist only for a subset of five common cancers, and compliance with screening recommendations is variable [12–17]. GRAIL has developed Galleri, a methylation-based multi-cancer early detection test [36, 56]. The Galleri test detects a shared signal from more than 50 cancer types, and can predict with high accuracy where in the body the cancer is coming from [37 - a critical capability of MCED tests. Importantly, the test only requires a simple blood draw. Modeling suggests that implementing Galleri in addition to the recommended screening tests has the potential to avert nearly 40% of cancer-specific deaths that would otherwise be expected to occur in the next five years.
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Hall, M.P., Aravanis, A.M. (2023). The Galleri Assay. In: Cote, R.J., Lianidou, E. (eds) Circulating Tumor Cells. Current Cancer Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22903-9_25
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