October 7, 2024

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Health firm wrongly told hundreds of people they might have cancer

CBS News

A biotechnology company selling a $949 blood test that it bills as a “first of its kind” to detect cancer said it incorrectly informed about 400 customers that they might have the disease. 

The Menlo Park, California, company, called Grail, said it sent a form letter to some customers who had bought its Galleri test, which detects a marker for more than 50 types of cancer, “stating incorrectly that a cancer signal was detected,” a company spokeswoman told CBS MoneyWatch in a statement. 

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