MCED
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MCED (countable and uncountable, plural MCEDs)
- (medicine) Initialism of multi-cancer early detection.
- 2023 May 17, Jamie Smyth, “Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?”, in Financial Times[1]:
- Caro is among a pioneering group of people in the US and UK who have elected to take part in a new form of cancer screening known as multi-cancer early detection tests (MCED). […] Critics of MCEDs also warn that a deluge of test results could put additional pressure on already overstretched health services.