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Targeted Therapy Management in NSCLC Patients Using Cytology: Experience from a Tertiary Care Cancer Center.
Molecular diagnosis & therapy - 1 Apr 2016
Veldore Vidya H, Patil Shekar, Prabhudesai Shilpa, Satheesh C T, Shashidhara H P, Krishnamoorthy Naveen, Hazarika D, Tejaswi R, Prabhudev Ankita, Naik Radheshyam, Rao Raghavendra M, Kumar B S Ajai
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BACKGROUND: Although biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis, cytological material has often been used to assist in making a pathologic diagnosis as well as for molecular testing in certain cancers such as in the lung, cervix, and head/neck. OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to share experience from our institution in the use of cytological material in screening for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations...
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