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New Blood Test May help Predict Survival of Advanced Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jan 30 10:40am | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
@zmarkv
That's why I'm curious. This article is a year old. My GU Oncologist automatically went with somatic testing with my metastatic disease in June of last year. No mention of this study. Or could be as simple as he knew that insurance would cover somatic.
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@mjp0512 would this not be termed somatic testing? The tissue biopsy is one type, this blood biopsy is another. I’ve been frustrated that the blood biopsies are not used much because of the ever changing genetics of the prostate cancer cells. This is a key question that I’ll be asking about,