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The tumour trail left in blood

The tumour trail left in blood

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The tumour trail left in blood

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The tumour trail left in blood

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Nature (London), 2016-04, Vol.532 (7598), p.269-271

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English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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The discovery that parts of tumour cells, or even whole cells, break away from the original tumour and enter the bloodstream led to the idea of liquid biopsies. With this approach, cancers can be genetically characterized by analysing tumour DNA taken from a blood sample, thus bypassing the need to extract solid tumour tissue. Now, the rise of rapi...

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The tumour trail left in blood

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1781534498

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1781534498

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0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/532269a

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