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Table 2 Sensitivity of Multi-cancer Signal Detection by Clinical Stage

From: Liquid biopsies: the future of cancer early detection

Company

Test (cost/ proposed cost)

Molecular origin

Specificity (%)

Sensitivity

Stage I (%)

Stage II (%)

Stage III (%)

Stage IV (%)

Dxcover [46]a (UK)

Dxcover cancer liquid biopsy ($300) (sensitivity tuned)

Spectroscopic pan-omics

58

99

97

99

98

Dxcover [46]a (UK)

Dxcover cancer liquid biopsy ($300) (specificity tuned)

Spectroscopic pan-omics

99

64

51

62

57

Grail [11]b

(USA)

Galleri ($949) [134]

Methylomics

99.5

16.8

40.4

77.0

90.1

Thrive [52]a (USA)

CancerSEEK ($-)

cfDNA and biomarkers

 > 99

43

73

78

N/A

  1. aCancer versus asymptomatic Non—cancer patients
  2. bCancer versus Non-cancer (asymptomatic or symptomatic status unknown.) N.B. The different studies used different datasets, for a true comparison these technologies should be applied to the same dataset, - represents data unable to source information on