As Cancer Immunotherapy Evolves, Challenges Compound for Diagnostic Development

Feb 28, 2018

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – At various sessions during Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference earlier this month, representatives from the diagnostics arena, pharmaceutical companies, and the medical oncology field discussed the main challenges and unknowns they believe will impact the future of cancer immunotherapy and associated diagnostic testing.

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