by Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health After patients with cancer undergo surgery to remove a tumor and sometimes additional chemotherapy, tools are used to identify patients at highest risk of recurrence. Non-invasive tools to detect microscopic disease are of especially high value. In a new study published in Clinical Cancer...
by Garvan Institute of Medical Research 3D-model of DNA. Credit: Michael Ströck/Wikimedia/ GNU Free Documentation License An international team today reports the findings of an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumor DNA sequencing—a fast, cheap and less invasive method to diagnose and monitor cancer. The researchers revealed that all assays could reliably detect so-called...
