Cancer blood test
Private Cancer Screening Manchester & Cheshire
Finding cancer early – before you have symptoms – significantly improves the outcome. One in two people born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Currently, almost half of these people are diagnosed after the cancer has spread.
It is now possible, from a simple blood test to check for very early signs of over 70 different cancers. When cancer is present it sheds tiny cells and tumour fragments into the bloodstream, called circulating tumour cells (CTCs).
The Trucheck™ test looks for these cells from solid tumour cancers and provides an indication of whether there are very early signs of cancer in the blood.
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Early Cancer Screening
Trucheck™ is a new blood-based paradigm in multicancer detection.
The following options are available:
- Trucheck™ intelli (up to 70 solid tumours)
- Trucheck™ FemmeSafe (Breast, Ovaries, Uterus, Cervix)
Trucheck™ technology
- Trucheck™ detects circulating tumour cells (CTCs) which are released by malignant tumours, but not from non-cancerous (normal / benign tumour / inflammatory) tissue. Hence CTCs are ubiquitously seen in blood of cancer patients but almost absent in blood of healthy individuals.
- Trucheck™ intelli can distinguish ~70 types of solid tumours which account for ~81% of all cancer cases and ~84% of all cancer related deaths in Europe.
- In clinical studies, Trucheck™ has a sensitivity of 88% in the detection of cancer at all stages and types.
- Real-world data has shown a sensitivity, depending on the tumor, of 65% – 89% and a specificity of 96% – 99%.
Who is the Trucheck™ test for?
Anyone who is interested in learning whether an asymptomatic cancer process is growing within their body, but particularly those who:
- are over 40 and as part of an annual health check-up
- are from a high-risk group and believe they have a high risk of a particular cancer
- have a strong family history of a certain cancer.
Those with a prior history of cancer should not take the Trucheck™ test. It is meant for healthy people who have never had cancer and who do not exhibit any signs.
Advantages of the Trucheck™ test:
- Using a straightforward blood sample, Trucheck™ can detect numerous cancer types that may be undetectable by current technologies, as opposed to screening for just one cancer at a time. Improved survival and higher percentages of effective therapy are linked to early detection.
- With high accuracy, Trucheck™ intelli provides diagnostically useful information about the tissue / organ of origin of the cancer by interrogating CTCs for the molecular fingerprint of the tumour mass from which the CTCs originated. This minimises diagnostic trial and error and guides further investigations.
- With an unmatched combination of sensitivity and specificity, Trucheck™ is an advanced complete cancer detection system that provides early cancer identification for those who are asymptomatic.
Book your Trucheck™ blood test here, or give us a call and have a confidential chat with Kathy or Natalie.