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In a bid to detect cancers early and in a noninvasive way, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report they have developed a test that spots tiny amounts of cancer-specific DNA in blood and have used it to accurately identify more than half of 138 people with relatively …
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16 April
Study Finds Inaccuracies with Tumor-Only Gene Sequencing
New cancer tests that only sequence alterations in a patient’s tumor could lead to a significant number of patients receiving inappropriate treatment, a new study suggests. A new study, published in Science Translational Medicine, conducted by scientists from Personal Genome Diagnostics, Inc. (PGDx) and Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, found …