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Can you let me know how many cancers can be diagnosed with a simple blood test?
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Just a few Blood can: Cancers of the blood can be diagnosesd with a blood test(they are called leukemias). Most other cancers do not show up in the blood...Or if they do, they are not easy to detect because the normal blood cells overwhelm the system so the cancer cells are rarely if ever seen in the blood.
Answered 5/2/2013
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