Kicking Cancer's Ass Podcast & Newsletter

Kicking Cancer's Ass Podcast & Newsletter

Your Blood Shows Cancer Is Back 8 Months Before a Scan Does

Episode #45 - Transcript

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Joelle Kaufman
May 09, 2026
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Amy L Delson, AIA
I can’t take mammograms or anything anymore. And so the only way that I could stop feeling so anxious is to get the CTDNA test. And the CTDNA test gives you a thought of what’s happening 8 to 12 months before a pet CT. Do we respect the patient enough to say it’s inexact? Here’s what it can tell us and here’s what it can’t, and here’s what it would mean and here’s what it wouldn’t. Then respect the patient to make the choice.

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