Shoddy biopsies deny cancer patients a shot at personalized treatment

Elie Dolgin • January 22, 2016

A huge federal trial of personalized cancer medicine has run into an unexpected roadblock: Many of the tumor samples aren’t robust enough to be put through genetic analysis.

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