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Game changer? Painless Swab Detects Oral Cancers in an Hour, With Over 95% Accuracy The quantitative Malignancy Index Diagnostic System (qMIDS) involves using a brush to swab the suspect lesion, and then analyzing it for signs of mRNA expression from four specific genes linked to oral cancer. the test was found to have an overall accuracy of 95.5%, with false-positive and false-negative rates of less than 5%. The results were available within an hour. https://www.sciencealert.com/painless-swab-detects-oral-cancers-in-an-hour-with-over-95-accuracy