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Assessing chemotherapy response within days, not months

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Doctors typically judge a cancer patient’s response to chemotherapy by using imaging techniques such as CT or MRI to see whether a tumor has changed size. However, it usually takes two to three months of therapy before the response can be determined via these methods. With earlier identification of patients who are not responding to therapy, another treatment could be tried much sooner. The recent increase in the number of available treatments makes early knowledge of how the patient is responding even more important. Researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and at Vanderbilt...Read full article

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    Published: March 2008
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