Following our discovery that my wife’s occult uterine cancer was morcellated using a gynecological power morcellator, we initiated a vigorous campaign to protect others from this avoidable harm. It is now increasingly clear that one in 350-500 women with symptomatic fibroids have occult or missed uterine cancer lurking in what a majority of gynecological surgeons have assumed to be benign tumors.
In this episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, Jacquelyn Cobb, managing editor, discuss the Sept. 23 meeting of the FDA Molecular and Clinical Genetics Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, during which the panel voted in favor of Galleri, the multi-cancer detection test from GRAIL Inc., to become the first multi-cancer detection test to receive regulatory approval.
