The survival rate for people with any type of cancer dramatically improves with the speed of diagnosis. As Joel Balsam of AskMen notes, early detection is the best way to help ensure successful treatment. Many types of cancer are difficult to detect, which means that patients sometimes go undiagnosed for too long, and by the time the disease is identified, it is too late. Fortunately, researchers say that by 2020, it may be possible to detect cancer by analyzing a single drop of a patient's blood.
Tissue biopsies and scans are currently the most commonly used methods for detecting cancer in a patient. Unfortunately, as noted by Warren Simmons of The Latest News, these scans are time-consuming and expensive, and do not always detect cancer until it is in the advanced stages.
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