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Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with receipt of biomarker testing in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
Cancer medicine - 1 Jan 2023
Markt Sarah C, Booker Benjamin D, Bensken Wyatt, Schiltz Nicholas K, Schumacher Fredrick R, Rose Johnie, Cooper Greg, Selfridge J Eva, Koroukian Siran M
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BACKGROUND: Standard clinical practice and national guidelines dictate somatic testing of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) tumors to guide appropriate therapy; however, previous studies suggest that not all patients are tested. The objective of this study was to investigate potential differences in testing for mCRC by demographic and clinical factors. METHODS: We performed a retrospective review of...
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