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Blood Test Could Predict Breast Cancer’s Return
THURSDAY, August 27, 2015 (Discovery News) — An experimental blood test may be able to predict whether a woman with breast cancer will suffer a relapse months before new tumors would be detectable on scans, researchers said Wednesday.
The technology, described in the journal Science Translational Medicine, works by detecting cancer DNA that circulates in the bloodstream.
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