Rush now offers a blood test to help detect more than 50 types of cancer, as other health systems remain wary

Rush now offers a blood test to help detect more than 50 types of cancer, as other health systems remain wary

Jack Welter didn’t feel sick when he agreed to take a new blood test that looks for multiple types of cancer. But, approaching 60, he thought it couldn’t hurt. To his surprise, the test came back positive. Welter then underwent multiple rounds of follow-up tests, and ultimately, doctors found cancer in his throat. The now 61-year-old Elkhart, Indiana, resident endured radiation and chemotherapy in 2023 and is now cancer-free. “Without that test,…