An-Najah News - Agencies – A new test has been revealed by researchers can detect more than 50 types of cancer.

This test focuses on the changes on the tumors’s DNA and in the blood, and according to the researchers, the test can only tell if a person has cancer, and could give an idea of what type of cancer they have, according to the Guardian.

The test is based on methylation patterns in DNA taken from 2800 patients, then it was tested on 3052 participants, who about half of them had cancer.

However, the test could correctly detect cancer stage 1 in 18% only, and 93% of people who have cancer in stage IV.

Furthermore, the test could reveal the type of cancer, and in what tissue the cancer originated in, and the results was correct in 93% of the predictions.

Dr David Crosby, head of early detection at Cancer Research UK, said that the research still needs to be improved in order to detect cancer in its early stages.