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C168596Level 7

Elective Plasma-based CancerSEEK Testing

**Semantic type:** Laboratory Procedure

**Definition:** A blood-base screening assay for early cancer detection. It uses a liquid biopsy test to detect genomic mutations in circulating tumor DNA, and cancer-associated protein markers in plasma, to identify abnormalities that are common across multiple cancers.

**Synonyms:** - CancerSEEK - CancerSEEK Assay - CancerSEEK Screening Test

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