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  "id": 8073059,
  "title": "Blood test trends may help identify patients at increased risk of cancer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/blood-test-trends-may-help-identify-patients-at-increased-risk-of",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-17T18:00:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
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    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-blood-trends-patients-cancer.html"
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  "summary": "Blood test trends alongside unexplained weight loss can improve triage for cancer testing, according to a study by Brian Nicholson and colleagues from the University of Oxford, UK, published Sept. 17 in the journal PLOS Medicine.",
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        "outlet": "PLOS Medicine",
        "title": "Blood test trend versus single threshold abnormality to discriminate cancer from non-cancer in patients with unexpected weight loss: A retrospective cohort study",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/blood-test-trend-versus-single-threshold-abnormality-to-discriminate",
        "published": "2026-09-17T14:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}