# What if a simple blood test could detect cancer?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Immigrant Diaspora: Iranian
- Speaker: Hani Goodarzi
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Computer science
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/hani_goodarzi_what_if_a_simple_blood_test_could_detect_cancer)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Catching cancer at its earliest stages saves lives. But in a body made up of trillions of cells, how do you spot a small group of rogue cancer cells? Biomedical researcher Hani Goodarzi discusses his lab's discovery of a new class of RNAs that, when paired with emerging AI tools, could help detect cancer earlier, more precisely and even through routine blood work — potentially transforming our understanding of the disease.

## Lectures

1. [What if a simple blood test could detect cancer?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/hani_goodarzi_what_if_a_simple_blood_test_could_detect_cancer/e27528f7b67c), 7 min (TED's player)