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Improving the Odds for Colon Cancer Treatment

by Ashley Staker on March 23, 2010

Cost-consciousness and excellent medical care can go hand in hand — for instance, a recent discovery in genetic medicine lets doctors customize chemotherapy not only to increase the likelihood it will work, but also to dramatically cut overall costs. Specifically, scientists have found that people with a certain gene mutation do not respond to cetuximab [...]

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