The Race to Diagnose Cancer With a Simple Blood Test
Liquid biopsies could transform cancer care as we know it
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12 min readJan 3, 2019
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Five years ago, a team of researchers pored over the results of a prenatal genetic test given to more than 125,000 healthy pregnant women and made a stunning discovery. The blood test, marketed by gene-sequencing giant Illumina, was designed to detect chromosome anomalies…