Posted on July 9, 2019 by Gray Connections
#CANCERSM Chat topic 11-Jul-2019: Basics of Biomarker Testing
Until just a few years ago, chemotherapy was often the only option for some cancer patients. In just a few short years, molecular therapies and immunotherapies have become commonplace as treatments for cancer patients. But determining whether a particular cancer patient is a candidate for these new, often very expensive, molecular and immunotherapies requires molecular biomarker testing. For many cancer patients and their families, the role of molecular biomarker testing in their diagnosis is a unfamiliar and confusing. How is testing performed? How is the test result analyzed? What is involved in… Read More
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