Blood Test To Detect Lung Cancer? ‘Warning Signals’ May Predict Disease Up To 5 Years Before Diagnosis

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• Blood Test To Detect Lung Cancer?
• ‘Warning Signals’ May Predict Disease Up To 5 Years Before Diagnosis Published By, Last Updated: June 06, 2026, 09:38 IST Experts are hopeful that the breakthrough can prove to be conducive to treating signs of lung cancer, one of the deadliest cancers, in advance Image for representation In what can be viewed as a significant milestone, scientists have identified warning signals in the blood that can predict lung cancer five years before the disease is actually diagnosed.
• Experts are hopeful that the breakthrough can prove to be conducive to treating signs of lung cancer — one of the deadliest cancers — in advance, where most patients are detected at advanced stages.
• Published in ‘Cell’, the study focused on a 14-protein blood signature that identified risks of lung cancer about 5.6 years before the actual diagnosis.
• The development help experts enable early screening, and initiate...