Tech News June 24, 2015

  • Why Liquid Biopsies in Cancer Treatment Are Still Experimental

    New diagnostics can find the DNA that drives a tumor, but evidence that they help patients is missing.

    A year ago I interviewed Deborah Fletcher, a 54-year-old manager at Deloitte who was fighting inflammatory breast cancer with all her professional skills. She carried a briefcase of spreadsheets, documenting treatments, bills, research, notes about who’d said what and what her plans were.

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