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Prospects for developing an accurate diagnostic biomarker panel for low prevalence cancers
5 Aug 2014
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BACKGROUND: Early detection screening of asymptomatic populations for low prevalence cancers requires a highly specific test in order to limit the cost and anxiety produced by falsely positive identifications. Most solid cancers are a heterogeneous collection of diseases as they develop from various combinations of genetic lesions and epigenetic modifications. Therefore, it is unlikely that a single test will...
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