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“If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able…” quote by Eric Topol — Download Open image

“If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.”

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