Cancer Detecting Blood Tests
Finally, multi-cancer early detection is possible with only a blood draw!
More than 1 out of 3 individuals will develop cancer in their lifetime.
70% of cancer deaths are from cancers without recommended screenings.
Only 5 out of >100 known cancer types have recommended screening tests.
With our annual cancer screening, you can be proactive about your preventative health. Staying informed about what may be going on inside your cells before symptoms may appear. Give yourself peace of mind and a chance at early detection, which saves lives.
Galleri Test Cost: $1200
This includes follow up consult to review results.
Negative results are usually given to the patient via phone or tele health. Positive results require in person follow up.
What is the Galleri test?
The Galleri test may present a far more efficient way of detecting cancer. Instead of searching for any one type of cancer, it screens an individual for multiple cancers. Its potential is to change the current screening process from screening for individual cancers to one where individuals are screened for multiple cancers with a single blood test.
Many cancers shed DNA into your bloodstream, known as cell-free DNA or circulating tumor DNA. This DNA is usually shed as cancer cells die. Using what’s called Next-Generation DNA Sequencing and machine learning, doctors can use a single blood draw (test) to look at various patterns in that DNA code and figure out two things: if a cancer signal is present, and from where the cancer likely started.
These patterns in your DNA are possible because of a biological process known as methylation. During this process, your body expresses certain genes but not others. You can picture it like a wall of light switches: for every switch you turn on, others might turn off, and different configurations produce different results. So, a skin cell will have one configuration, while a liver cell will have another. In the same way, healthy cells will have one configuration, while cancer cells will have a different one. And specific cancer types will have specific configurations different from other cancer types.
“It’s like fingerprints and how fingerprints tell the difference between two people,” explains Dr. Klein. “The methylation patterns are fingerprints that are characteristic of each kind of cancer. They look one way for lung cancer and different for colon cancer.”
If you take the Galleri test, you can have two possible results:
What cancers are detected by Galleri?
Galleri can detect more than 50 types of cancer, including:
Each listed cancer type below is hyperlinked to the Cleveland Clinic for more information:
“Twelve cancers, including anal, bladder, colorectal, esophageal, head and neck, liver/bile-duct, lung, lymphoma, ovary, pancreatic, plasma-cell neoplasm and stomach cancer, account for about two-thirds of all cancer deaths in the U.S.,” says Dr. Klein. “For these 12, Galleri finds about 40% of stage I cancers, 67% of stage II cancers, 80% of stage III cancers and 95% of stage IV cancers.”
Galleri can detect these cancers because of the DNA it sheds into your bloodstream. That means it doesn’t detect cancers that don’t shed DNA into your bloodstream, like brain cancer.
How accurate is the Galleri blood test?
Depending on the test, traditional screening tests have a false-positive rate of 10% to 40%. Galleri has a 0.5% false-positive rate, which means it’s highly accurate.
“It finds 51.5% of cancers,” points out Dr. Klein. “If you look at the 12 cancers that account for two-thirds of all deaths in the U.S., it actually finds 67% of those.”
And it’s 89% effective in predicting where the cancer started.
Currently, the Galleri test is meant to be in addition to traditional screenings — so you should get screened for cancers as you normally would once you’ve reached the applicable age. But, Dr. Klein points out that as we develop more research and collect more data, it may be possible to test for most cancers in the future using a simple blood test without having to use screening tests of the past.
“This is theoretical, but in the future, all cancer screening could be based on a blood test. But we’re not there yet,” he notes.
Is the Galleri blood test FDA approved?
Currently, the Galleri test isn’t U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved. For now, if you’re interested in this cancer screening blood test, you can consult with us at Nu Med and see if you are a candidate for annual screening.
You can find this information above and more on the Galleri Cancer Screening test here: The Galleri Test for Cancer Screening, courtesy of the Cleveland Clinic.
IMPORTANT INFOMRATION:
The Galleri test is recommended for use in adults with an elevated risk for cancer, such as those age 50 or older. The test does not detect all cancers and should be used in addition to routine cancer screening tests recommended by a healthcare provider. The Galleri test is intended to detect cancer signals and predict where in the body the cancer signal is located. Use of the test is not recommended in individuals who are pregnant, 21 years old or younger, or undergoing active cancer treatment.
Results should be interpreted by a healthcare provider in the context of medical history, clinical signs, and symptoms. A test result of No Cancer Signal Detected does not rule out cancer. A test result of Cancer Signal Detected requires confirmatory diagnostic evaluation by medically established procedures (e.g., imaging) to confirm cancer.
If cancer is not confirmed with further testing, it could mean that cancer is not present or testing was insufficient to detect cancer, including due to the cancer being located in a different part of the body. False positive (a cancer signal detected when cancer is not present) and false negative (a cancer signal not detected when cancer is present) test results do occur. Rx only.
More than 1 out of 3 individuals will develop cancer in their lifetime.
70% of cancer deaths are from cancers without recommended screenings.
Only 5 out of >100 known cancer types have recommended screening tests.
With our annual cancer screening, you can be proactive about your preventative health. Staying informed about what may be going on inside your cells before symptoms may appear. Give yourself peace of mind and a chance at early detection, which saves lives.
Galleri Test Cost: $1200
This includes follow up consult to review results.
Negative results are usually given to the patient via phone or tele health. Positive results require in person follow up.
What is the Galleri test?
The Galleri test may present a far more efficient way of detecting cancer. Instead of searching for any one type of cancer, it screens an individual for multiple cancers. Its potential is to change the current screening process from screening for individual cancers to one where individuals are screened for multiple cancers with a single blood test.
Many cancers shed DNA into your bloodstream, known as cell-free DNA or circulating tumor DNA. This DNA is usually shed as cancer cells die. Using what’s called Next-Generation DNA Sequencing and machine learning, doctors can use a single blood draw (test) to look at various patterns in that DNA code and figure out two things: if a cancer signal is present, and from where the cancer likely started.
These patterns in your DNA are possible because of a biological process known as methylation. During this process, your body expresses certain genes but not others. You can picture it like a wall of light switches: for every switch you turn on, others might turn off, and different configurations produce different results. So, a skin cell will have one configuration, while a liver cell will have another. In the same way, healthy cells will have one configuration, while cancer cells will have a different one. And specific cancer types will have specific configurations different from other cancer types.
“It’s like fingerprints and how fingerprints tell the difference between two people,” explains Dr. Klein. “The methylation patterns are fingerprints that are characteristic of each kind of cancer. They look one way for lung cancer and different for colon cancer.”
If you take the Galleri test, you can have two possible results:
- No cancer signal detected means there’s no cancer DNA detected in your bloodstream.
- A cancer signal detected suggests you may have cancer.
What cancers are detected by Galleri?
Galleri can detect more than 50 types of cancer, including:
Each listed cancer type below is hyperlinked to the Cleveland Clinic for more information:
- Anal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Leukemia
- Liver cancer
- Mesothelioma
- Oral cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Uterine cancer
“Twelve cancers, including anal, bladder, colorectal, esophageal, head and neck, liver/bile-duct, lung, lymphoma, ovary, pancreatic, plasma-cell neoplasm and stomach cancer, account for about two-thirds of all cancer deaths in the U.S.,” says Dr. Klein. “For these 12, Galleri finds about 40% of stage I cancers, 67% of stage II cancers, 80% of stage III cancers and 95% of stage IV cancers.”
Galleri can detect these cancers because of the DNA it sheds into your bloodstream. That means it doesn’t detect cancers that don’t shed DNA into your bloodstream, like brain cancer.
How accurate is the Galleri blood test?
Depending on the test, traditional screening tests have a false-positive rate of 10% to 40%. Galleri has a 0.5% false-positive rate, which means it’s highly accurate.
“It finds 51.5% of cancers,” points out Dr. Klein. “If you look at the 12 cancers that account for two-thirds of all deaths in the U.S., it actually finds 67% of those.”
And it’s 89% effective in predicting where the cancer started.
Currently, the Galleri test is meant to be in addition to traditional screenings — so you should get screened for cancers as you normally would once you’ve reached the applicable age. But, Dr. Klein points out that as we develop more research and collect more data, it may be possible to test for most cancers in the future using a simple blood test without having to use screening tests of the past.
“This is theoretical, but in the future, all cancer screening could be based on a blood test. But we’re not there yet,” he notes.
Is the Galleri blood test FDA approved?
Currently, the Galleri test isn’t U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved. For now, if you’re interested in this cancer screening blood test, you can consult with us at Nu Med and see if you are a candidate for annual screening.
You can find this information above and more on the Galleri Cancer Screening test here: The Galleri Test for Cancer Screening, courtesy of the Cleveland Clinic.
IMPORTANT INFOMRATION:
The Galleri test is recommended for use in adults with an elevated risk for cancer, such as those age 50 or older. The test does not detect all cancers and should be used in addition to routine cancer screening tests recommended by a healthcare provider. The Galleri test is intended to detect cancer signals and predict where in the body the cancer signal is located. Use of the test is not recommended in individuals who are pregnant, 21 years old or younger, or undergoing active cancer treatment.
Results should be interpreted by a healthcare provider in the context of medical history, clinical signs, and symptoms. A test result of No Cancer Signal Detected does not rule out cancer. A test result of Cancer Signal Detected requires confirmatory diagnostic evaluation by medically established procedures (e.g., imaging) to confirm cancer.
If cancer is not confirmed with further testing, it could mean that cancer is not present or testing was insufficient to detect cancer, including due to the cancer being located in a different part of the body. False positive (a cancer signal detected when cancer is not present) and false negative (a cancer signal not detected when cancer is present) test results do occur. Rx only.