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Oncology Times: The Use of Liquid Biopsies in Patients With NSCLC

Written by James Ikeda | Nov 30, 2017 8:00:58 PM

"Increasingly, medical oncologists work with multidisciplinary teams to diagnose and manage lung cancer cases. Interventional pulmonologists on these teams perform diagnostic workups, obtain tissue biopsies, and play a role in the timely diagnosis and staging of lung cancer (Ann Am Thorac Soc 2015;12(5):742-751). The number of molecular tests that can impact patient treatment is increasing, while biopsies are becoming less invasive, resulting in less tissue to work with." Read the article.