Mining Methylation for Early Detection of Common Cancers
Open Access
- 26 December 2006
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 3 (12) , e479
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030479
Abstract
A single method that detects multiple common cancer types at an early stage would have the biggest payoff for cancer control, say Brena and colleagues.Keywords
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