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Blood test can identify cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms

Blood test can identify cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms
Study populations and biomarker discovery workflow. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67688-3

A simple blood test can help detect cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, pain or weight loss. This is according to a Swedish study from Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd Hospital and others, published in Nature Communications.

When patients seek care for non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, pain or weight loss, it is often difficult to determine whether the cause is cancer, another serious condition or something completely harmless.

In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Danderyd Hospital, together with Örebro University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab at Uppsala University, have investigated whet...

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