Combining laboratory techniques yields wealth of information about deadly brain tumors

Clinicians from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and four other institutions have demonstrated that doctors can gain a wealth of knowledge about a patient’s cancer by using multiple laboratory techniques to study tumor tissue taken from needle biopsies of glioblastoma, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

The work, funded by Break Through Cancer and published in the April 28 issue of Nature Communications, has implications for additional cancer types.

Physicians currently limit…

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