Azra Raza

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 The First Blood Test for Fifty Cancers Reached the FDA Today. It Still Misses Most Early Ones A tweet promoting a podcast with oncologist Azra Raza asks whether medicine should chase cancer's first cell instead of its last. The technology closest to doing that, GRAIL's Galleri blood test, had its first-ever FDA advisory panel hearing today. What it actually finds, what a 142,942-person trial found it missing, and how far Dr. Raza's own, more radical idea still has to go.

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