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Circulating DNA and lung cancer.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Sept 2006
Xue Xiaoyan, Zhu Yong M, Woll Penella J
Abstract excerpt
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The majority of patients is diagnosed too late for curative treatment. There is an urgent need for a noninvasive test to identify early lung cancer. Although levels of circulating cell-free DNA in plasma or serum are higher in patients with lung cancer than in healthy controls, it is not yet clear whether this will be of diagnostic or prognostic...
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