Research on Cancer Blood Test Is Overhyped in the Media

April 23, 2015

(Medical Xpress) – Headlines today are heralding a new “simple blood test”, claiming it can accurately predict if a woman will develop breast cancer in the future. This sounds amazing. But you’d be correct in thinking it’s also too good to be true. In the study, which you can read here in the journal Metabolomics, the researchers suggest that a blood test looking at the chemicals and molecules present in a woman’s blood – her so called ‘metabolic profile’ – could tell doctors if she will develop breast cancer within the next seven years.