For people with cancer or suspected cancer, the biopsy is a necessary evil—an uncomfortable and somewhat risky procedure to extract tissue for diagnosis or analysis. Lynn Lewis, a breast cancer patient in Brooklyn, has had her cancer analyzed an easier way: simple blood tests that are being called “liquid biopsies.”
Sidestepping the biopsy with new tools to spot cancer
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