Tumor Marker Monitoring
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Reduce cost of care An obvious goal is to enhance patient care. We have to remember that tumor markers are not treatments and that the relevance of tumor markers for particular cancers are only as good as the treatments allow them to be. The other speakers have made that observation also. So how can tumor markers enhance patient care? Hopefull~ they can extend survival time and improve the quality of that survival by optimizing the use of treatment programs.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005