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Scientists have developed a simple DNA test that can identify 18 early-stage cancers that experts say could represent a medical “gamechanger”.

Existing screening tests have drawbacks, including invasiveness, cost and low levels of accuracy for early stage disease.

Now US researchers have designed a test that analyses proteins in the blood and can pick up 18 early stage cancers, representing all main organs in the human body.

Writing in the journal BMJ Oncology, the team said: “This finding is the foundation for a multi-cancer screening test for the early detection of 18 solid tumours that cover all major human organs of origin for such cancers at the earliest stage of their development with high accuracy.”

This shows the importance of low-level proteins to pick up pre-cancerous and early stage disease before a tumour has had time to cause substantial damage, the team said.

Prof Paul Pharoah, a cancer epidemiology expert at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who was also not involved in the study, welcomed the findings but urged caution.

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