{"id":614530,"date":"2026-09-28T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614530\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:58:24","slug":"personalised-multi-cancer-blood-testing-emerges-as-major-trend-urine-based-test-planned-for-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614530\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalised multi-cancer blood testing emerges as major trend, urine-based test planned for year-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer screening is entering a new personalised era, with patented multi-cancer early detection blood testing technology from Singapore now allowing individuals to detect early cancer signals through a single blood draw.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical oncologists say combining ctDNA and ctRNA co-testing significantly improves the detection rate of early-stage cancer alterations. The technology has recently introduced LucenceINSIGHT Me, a risk-informed screening model that allows test panels to be customised based on family history and lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong is the first private hospital in the city to introduce the service, integrating front-line biotechnology into private healthcare to ease public healthcare pressure and provide a one-stop preventive healthcare network.<\/p>\n<p>Lucence also plans to launch a urine-based test for kidney, bladder and prostate cancer by the end of this year, with lower costs expected.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Min-Han Tan, founding CEO and medical director of Lucence, said traditional screening treats everyone the same. &#8220;The future of cancer screening is not about testing for as many cancers as possible; it is about testing for the right cancers for the right person, at the right time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kenneth Tsang, regional CEO of IHH Healthcare North Asia and CEO of Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong, said screening must sit within a complete pathway from result to follow-up to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The test is recommended for adults aged 40 and above or those at elevated risk, and is intended to complement rather than replace routine screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cancer screening is entering a new personalised era, with patented multi-cancer early detection blood testing technology from Singapore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[251,607,21619,246,103400,42,134,527,103402,103401,103403,1258,111,139,69,103404,213,1177,72578,377],"class_list":["post-614530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-breaking-news","tag-china","tag-english-daily","tag-finance","tag-free-newspaper","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hong-kong-media","tag-hong-kong-news","tag-hong-kong-news-media","tag-latest-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sing-tao","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-the-standard","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}