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The Science Behind Early Cancer Detection Tests with Dr. Whitney Jones of GRAIL

Wild Health Podcast

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Can You Order a Grail Test for Me?

We're able to accurately pick if you will that needle in the haystack out with a lot of accuracy our sensitivity is 51% meaning we don't pick up half of the cancers. We have an incredible positive predictive value of about 45 44% so that's like a logarithm higher than a mammogram right. The test and particularly when you're looking at a multi-cancer algorithm it's really important at a population that will not spin off that many false positivesright because these are pretty extensive workups when they're positive.

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