to how scientists can now predict cancer in a moment but let's back up according to the national cancer institute in 2020 roughly 1800000 people will be diagnosed with cancer in the united states and an estimated 606520 people will die of cancer this year in the u.s. 2nd only to eating white castle and then listening to a kanye west presidential campaign speech and anyway you get the point cancer kills a lot of people we all know that many of the most fatal cases are because people don't realize they have it until it's too late well scientific american is reporting a new experimental blood test attacks cancer for years before symptoms emerge for years they tested more than 123000 healthy individuals in ties to china which required building a specialized warehouse to store the more than 1600000 samples they eventually accrued yeah that's a big gross warehouse. samples of wasn't. any way over the following 10 years around a 1000 participants got cancer and using the new blood test the researchers knew up to 4 years in advance which participants would get it with a 90 percent accuracy rate they knew

to how scientists can now predict cancer in a moment but let's back up according to the national cancer institute in 2020 roughly 1800000 people will be diagnosed with cancer in the united states and an estimated 606520 people will die of cancer this year in the u.s. 2nd only to eating white castle and then listening to a kanye west presidential campaign speech and anyway you get the point cancer kills a lot of people we all know that many of the most fatal cases are because people don't realize they have it until it's too late well scientific.

to how scientists can now predict cancer in a moment but let's back up according to the national cancer institute in 2020 roughly 1800000 people will be diagnosed with cancer in the united states and an estimated 606520 people will die of cancer this year in the u.s. 2nd only to eating white castle and then listening to a kanye west presidential campaign speech and anyway you get the point cancer kills a lot of people we all know that many of the most fatal cases are because people don't realize they have it until it's too late well scientific american is reporting a new experimental blood test attacks cancer for years before symptoms emerge for years they tested more than 123000 healthy individuals in ties to china which required building a specialized warehouse to store the more than 1600000 samples they eventually accrued that's. gross warehouse. samples of wasn't. any way over the following 10 years around a 1000 participants got cancer and using the new blood test the researchers knew up to 4 years in advance which participants would get it with a 90 percent accuracy rate they knew the resea

. >> i'm hoping now thanks to wonderful american doctor head of nih with the national cancer institute who did the human genome project half the time and under budget, he and i have met because we had a religion debate and we became friends that way and he is a very convince christian we have become friendly and he's taken kindly interest in my case and has helped me had my genome sequenced looking for a more identifiable match for a mutation peculiar for me for this drug. today is friday the 14th. i don't know when this will be shown on monday i hope to try that if my bone marrow has recovered enough and i'm strong enough. that is 6 billion dna matches of my tumor said against 6 billion dna matches of my blood to look at something individually mutated absolutely extraordinary what can be done now. we have to go to st. louis and that's for the project is to find out how it can be applied to individuals predicaments in medicine. it will be commonplace soon. there is a terrible lack of funding so people can write their congressman in the recent budget a terrible collapse of funding with