Blood test helps guide treatment and can impact quality of life for breast cancer patients

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 10:00 in Health & Medicine

With the goal of tailoring cancer interventions for the individual, researchers at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Georgetown have published the results of a prospective study that validates the use of a simple blood test to help doctors more reliably assess treatment effectiveness for patients with metastatic breast cancer. These findings were released on-line today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology...

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