Neat News 2023-89 (added 2023-03-30)
Blood test to avoid chemotherapy after bowel cancer?
| After surgery to remove stage 3 bowel cancer, patients typically undergo chemotherapy to kill any potentially remaining cancer cells. It is estimated that for half of the patients this chemotherapy is unnecessary. A new study it about to start to see whether a blood test can detect traces of cancer cells to distinguish who benefits from chemotherapy and who not. related: #bowel_cancer #chemotherapy |
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