"A new at-home spit test for prostate cancer could allow thousands of men to receive earlier diagnoses including Black men who were previously excluded from such tests."
"The NHS is launching a 2 million trial of the new saliva test, led by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, which will examine whether it can speed up prostate cancer diagnoses."
"Spit tests calculate the risk of prostate cancer from DNA extracted from saliva and have previously indicated a higher accuracy than the standard blood test for men with a high risk of developing the disease."
"The original saliva test, trialled in 2016, could only be used for white people of European ancestry as the genetic data was not available for Black and Asian men, despite Black men being twice as likely to develop the disease."
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