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News About Pharmaceuticals in Mesothelioma Treatment

1. New Biomarkers May Speed Diagnosis of Mesothelioma 2. Lowered Cost of DNA Sequencing Improving Specificity of Cancer Treatment 3. Scientists Find Cell Process That Causes Mesothelioma 4. Immune Response Inhibitor Identified in Cancer Retroviruses 5. MRIs Effective in Identifying Malignant Testicular Cancer Growths 6. National Comprehensive Cancer Network Announces New Mesothelioma Guidelines 7. New [...]

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Cancer Scientists Isolate "Fingerprint" of Individual Tumors

As recently reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, DNA snippets identified and extracted from the tumors of cancer patients are creating a new series of biomarkers which can be used in blood tests subsequent to cancer treatment to determine if cancer treatments are successful, or if traces of the tumor remain. These fragments of [...]

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