Thursday, August 6, 2015

Payment for cancer biomarker testing

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2015 Mar;139(3):300-4. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2014-0190-ED.

Payment for cancer biomarker testing.

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  • 1From the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
"But payment for biomarker testing is a growing concern in the emerging world of personalized medicine. And the concern is legitimate; although personalized cancer therapy is successfully tackling biological, technical, and pharmacologic challenges, payment is emerging as the challenge most difficult to overcome, and the one that puts the ultimate success of personalized cancer therapy at greatest risk."

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