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Biocept Target Selector for CSF

Jan 14, 2020

Biocept's Target Selector liquid biopsy assays are now available to physicians to evaluate patients' cerebrospinal fluid for the presence of circulating tumor cells and biomarkers for patients with breast or lung cancer suspected of brain or central nervous system metastases. The presences of such cells may indicate brain metastases. Biocept said that up to 30 percent of patients with breast cancer and up to 36 percent of patients with lung cancer will develop brain metastases.  

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