Sensitive blood test detects pancreatic cancer signs often missed by standard methods

A highly sensitive blood test can detect signs of pancreatic cancer that standard methods often miss, according to results of a prospective cohort study.Digital droplet polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) analysis performed upon diagnosis of localized disease detected KRAS-mutant circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) nearly four times more often than more widely used next-generation sequencing, with