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Rush University Medical Center phlebotomist Shakia Evans collects a blood specimen, July 22, 2025, from Rush employee Margaret Hornung for a multi-cancer early detection test. The hospital recently started offering patients a blood test that can help detect about 50 types of cancer. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
Rush University Medical Center phlebotomist Shakia Evans collects a blood specimen, July 22, 2025, from Rush employee Margaret Hornung for a multi-cancer early detection test. The hospital recently started offering patients a blood test that can help detect about 50 types of cancer. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)
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The blood test, and others like it, have been gaining momentum among doctors who use them to help detect cancers that otherwise might go unnoticed until patients become ill.
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