Research to start on blood tests to detect 13 cancer types

TOKYO, Japan - Researchers announce the commencement of a project to develop ways of detecting 13 types of cancer from a single blood sample at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2014. Making the announcement were Kenji Kurata (L), president of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Tomomitsu Hotta (C), president of the National Cancer Center, and Tetsu Yonehara, head of Toray Industries Inc.'s New Frontiers Research Laboratories.

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