To develop the test, researchers analyzed 6553 blood samples, 3076 from patients with cancer and 3477 from healthy ...

Free-floating DNA carrying cancerous mutations was detected in blood three years before any other signs of cancer appeared.

Dr. Soma Mandal, a board-certified internist at Summit Health in New Providence, New Jersey, says that getting a CBC test is ...

Following a heart transplant, patients must undergo surgical biopsies so that clinicians can monitor for signs of organ rejection. A new study shows the promise of a biomarker that could allow doctors ...

The Hemoglobin A1C test, also called the HbA1c, is a blood test that measures your average blood sugar level over the past 2-3 months. Mandel explains that it's primarily used to diagnose and ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is a measure of the average amount of hemoglobin in ...

A new blood test to pick up early signs of pancreatic cancer is being trialled by UK doctors. The genomic test uses blood samples to look for markers of the deadly disease, which often has vague ...

A blood test based on whole-genome sequencing achieved 99% sensitivity and specificity for detecting HPV-positive head and neck cancer. Early postoperative detection of circulating tumor DNA ...