Oncology Times: The Use of Liquid Biopsies in Patients With NSCLC

"Increasingly, medical oncologists work with multidisciplinary teams to diagnose and manage lung cancer cases. Interventional pulmonologists on these teams perform diagnostic workups, obtain tissue biopsies, and play a role in the timely diagnosis and staging of lung cancer (Ann Am Thorac Soc 2015;12(5):742-751). The number of molecular tests that can impact patient treatment is increasing, while biopsies are becoming less invasive, resulting in less tissue to work with." Read the article. 

 

 

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