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Each year, close to 20 million people around the world hear the words, “You have cancer.” Regular screening plays a vital role in early cancer detection and treatment, yet the uptake of such tests remains low. In Singapore, for example, a recent survey found that only about four in 10 women aged 50 to 69 regularly go for a mammogram.
Now, however, Singaporean precision medicine startup Lucence has developed a range of quick, non-invasive blood tests that can alert people to cancer DNA and different mutations for earlier cancer detection when potentially curable.