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TIL that the colours of the caps on vacutainers (blood draw tubes) don't inherently have a meaning beyond an overlap in individual manufacturer convention - there's no international standard.
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What the Colour of Your Blood Test Tubes Says
By Paul Towet — Medical lab technologist/Medical writer

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proactive, multi-cancer, blood-based screening
that could make comprehensive cancer detection as routine as a cholesterol panel.
An entire industry is emerging around multi-cancer early detection.
Exact Sciences’ Cancerguard launched as a laboratory-developed test in September 2025.
Abbott is acquiring Exact Sciences for $21 billion
— a signal of how seriously the pharmaceutical industry takes this c…

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Found out yesterday that TCH pharmacy had lost husband's compassionate prescription so instead he'll have to have yet another blood test at Weston today and then see the rheumatologist at TCH in a couple of weeks (squeezed in) to get the new script. All the paperwork is in the pharmacy folder - just the repeat script is missing. I'm booked in for a haircut in Woden so all this will be accomplished as a team excursion because we will have a 3yo in tow. No preschool today. I think …

Was awake at six. Went out with my wife. She went to work. I went to hospital for a blood test. Then a bus to a coffee shop. Priorities! Then another bus to Costco. Waiting outside for them to open at 10:00.