Traditional mammograms have a 10% false-positive rate that causes unnecessary anxiety. A new approach combines blood tests with imaging to detect breast cancer and other cancers earlier, reducing stress and avoiding some surgeries entirely.
The reason we're blaring, because mammography alone produces false positive. Women who've done these tests, they're going to see about 10% get false positives. That means you're sent back to the doctor, you're scared. You think you actually have breast cancer, and you, in fact, may not. So I like this multi signal approach because we can look at blood, we can look at imaging, and it's really easy. And we can look for more than one cancer. We can look for all the top cancers, which is brilliant because that's the key, early detection. We can remove the anxiety and the fear. We can spot it early, and then we can get into precision treatment where we can avoid oftentimes surgery, surgery and other procedures if we catch it early enough.
