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- Oral oncologist Muy-Teck Teh and Indian scientists validated a brush-swab test that detects oral cancer within an hour.
- The qMIDS-V3 assay examined brush samples from 545 patients and achieved 95.5 percent accuracy with false-positive and false-negative rates below 5 percent.
- Results were delivered in under one hour, enabling rapid triage and potentially reducing surgical biopsies by more than 90 percent.
- Researchers aim to commercialize the test within two years to cut unnecessary referrals.
