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There are many ways to screen for a single kind of cancer, but no single way to screen for many kinds of cancer.  

Two research teams at the Mayo Clinic are working on parallel efforts to develop a simpler way to screen for multiple kinds of cancer.  

MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Dr. Keith Stewart, who is leading one of those teams in partnership with Grail, a start-up aimed at improving cancer detection. Stewart is a professor at Mayo and the director of the Center for Individualized Medicine.

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Two research teams at the Mayo Clinic are working on parallel efforts to develop a simpler way to screen for multiple kinds of cancer.

There are many ways to screen for a single kind of cancer, but no single way to screen for many kinds of cancer.  For example, doctors look for breast cancer with a mammogram, lung cancer with a CT scan, and colon cancer with a colonoscopy.  Two research teams at the Mayo Clinic are working on parallel efforts to develop a simpler way to screen for multiple kinds of cancer.  MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Dr. Keith Stewart who is leading one of those teams in partnership with Grail, a start-up aimed at improving cancer detection. Dr. Stewart is a professor at Mayo and the director of the Center for Individualized Medicine.

Mayo searching for way to screen for multiple kinds of cancer at once

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