Volunteers return to help NHS trial new cancer screening blood test
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOver the coming weeks, hundreds of participants in Manchester and Trafford who enrolled on the NHS-Galleri trial in 2021 will be returning to mobile clinics for their last of three appointments for the trial.
Participants will be asked to give a blood sample to help the NHS see if using the Galleri blood test alongside existing cancer screening can help detect cancer early.
Finding cancer early often means it is easier to treat. Since the NHS-Galleri trial first arrived in Greater Manchester in October 2021 the trial has successfully enrolled over 140,000 volunteers from many different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds across England, including 20,000 from Greater Manchester.
Volunteers were all aged 50 to 77 years old at the point of enrolling on the trial and had not been diagnosed or treated for cancer in the last three years.
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