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At-home saliva test for prostate cancer better than blood test, study suggests

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The test assesses 130 genetic variants to provide a risk score for prostate cancer.

This so-called polygenic risk score was found to be a more powerful predictor of aggressive prostate cancer than the standard blood test used in the NHS .

Chris Hoy , who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, has called for the tests to be made available to younger men with a family history of the disease and to black men.

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