Canary Foundation and Stanford University Commit $20 Million for World-Class Research Center for Cancer Early Detection
Center will be the first in the world to integrate research on both in vivo and in vitro diagnostics to deliver blood and complementary imaging tests for solid tumor cancers
Early detection has proven value. One example is the Pap test. Thanks to this simple screening test, there has been a 70 percent decline in cervical cancer incidence and deaths in developed countries since 1950. Studies have shown that for nearly all types of cancer, the five-year relative survival rate is substantially lower when disease is caught in an advanced stage. In addition to saving lives, prevention and early detection have the potential to reduce the cost of treatments, which accounted for a staggering $93 billion in the U.S. in 2008.
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