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A Brief Introduction to Clinical Application of Liquid Biopsy

What is liquid biopsy? It's a test done on circulating tumor cells or shed fragments of tumor DNA from a sample of blood to determine the genomics or molecular portrait of a tumor.

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Cancer Care

Assessment of HER2 status in Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma (GEA)

Human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) is a proto-oncogene that encodes a tyrosine kinase receptor belonging to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family.

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Cancer Care

Current Challenges for HER2 Immunohistochemistry Testing in Diagnostic Pathology

In the era of precision medicine, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is one of the important predictive and prognostic biomarkers in breast cancer.

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Cancer Care

Current State of Prostate Cancer Testing

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality among men in the U.S. Early detection and new treatments have been attributed to the excellent five-year survival rate.

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