Frederick Health now offers the Galleri® multi-cancer early detection test. This blood test can screen for more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear. Frederick Health is the second location in Maryland to provide this test. The test works by detecting DNA fragments from cancer cells in the blood.
Patients can be screened for both common and rare cancers, including kidney, pancreatic, stomach, and bone cancers, with one blood draw. The test is used in addition to traditional cancer screenings. It may help doctors find aggressive cancers earlier, when treatment can be more effective.
Patricia Rice, Clinical Director for Precision Medicine & Genetics at Frederick Health, said that many families do not know that routine screenings are not available for some cancers, such as pancreatic cancer or leukemia. She said the Galleri® test can help by detecting signals from cancers that do not have standard screening tests…