GRAIL (a liquid biopsy test using cell-free DNA methylation patterns) can detect cancer presence and estimate origin organ; it has low sensitivity (poor at detecting stage 1-2 cancer, ~20% for most histologies) but high specificity (good at confirming absence of cancer); the positive and negative predictive values depend on pretest probability (cancer prevalence in the population tested).
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Dr. Peter AttiaEvidence Quote
“GRAIL... cell-free DNA... relatively low sensitivity... very high specificity.”
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