Dr. Erica Barnell: Stool-Based Detection of Colon Cancer
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Colrectal Cancer Screening
colonoscapes have been the gold standard for colrectl cancer screening since about the seventies. Most patients that undergo a colonoscope actually don't have findings and will be instructed to come back ten years later. Our goal is to create molecular diagnostics that use samples that people just throw away in the toilet every day, im and leverage that sample type to understand if patients actually need to go through this very evasive procedure of a colonoscope to detect and alicia,. you see, this is what i was hoping we would mention, is that the colonoscope is really good, but only if you get one ora.
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