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Colon Cancer Biomarker Undertesting Rates in Real-World Data Points to Precision Oncology Barriers

Jan 27, 2020
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Turna Ray
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NEW YORK – Metastatic colon cancer patients are being undertested for guidelines-backed genomic markers, which means that many of them are losing out on the chance to receive precision therapies, a recently published study suggests. 

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