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Diagnosing oesophageal cancer with a sponge

Diagnosing oesophageal cancer with a sponge

In practice, oesophageal cancer is diagnosed by taking a biopsy, but according to scientists of the University of Cambridge this method does not detect all aberrant cell populations. In Nature Genetics they describe their new method with a sponge that scrapes cells of the whole oesophageal wall. Continue reading

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