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December 9, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Tracing the Lineage of Lung Cancer Tumors

By Center for Individualized Medicine

    A diagnostic test based on chromosomal rearrangements can trace the lineage of lung cancer to determine whether two separate lung cancers in the same patient are independent tumors or a tumor that has spread to another region of the lung, a Mayo Clinic study has found. For patients with multiple tumors, that distinction […]

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