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Universal Diagnostics (UDX), an in-vitro diagnostics company developing minimally-invasive, blood-based solutions for detecting cancer early, announced today promising new data for its investigational blood-based lung cancer test. The data, presented at the IASLC 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (WCLC20), held virtually 28
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st January 2021, used methylation status measurement of the tumour-derived portion from cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in plasma for patient classification. Results of the study show the potential of the test to detect different lung cancer sub-types early, with high sensitivity and specificity, and indicate the potential of using blood-based screening for wider population regardless of the smoking-status of the patient.