Becker's Healthcare August 2, 2024
A new project through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, aims to create an at-home cancer screening test that can detect more than 30 types of Stage 1 cancers using breath or urine samples.
“So many Americans do not have access to cancer screening, particularly underserved communities,” Renee Wegrzyn, director of ARPA-H, said in an Aug. 1 news release on the effort. “Access to a low-cost cancer screening test that does not need a lab test is so critical to preventing late-stage diagnoses, increasing survival rates, and reducing high treatment costs.”
If successful, the program, dubbed POSEIDON, will create a test capable of integrating with...
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