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Duke University Medical Center

Chemotherapy Genomic Test

Caption: The tests work by scanning thousands of genes from a patient's tumor to produce a "genomic" profile of the tumor's molecular makeup, giving physicians a tool to match the right chemotherapy for the patient's tumor type.

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