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Re:Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the ... by jghn on Thursday July 08, 2021 @09:23PM (#27779558)
Exactly. Insurance companies are very interested in Real World Data (RWD) around genomic based treatments. By using those data they can have a better sense of which patients would be likely to respond to which drugs, and steer treatment that way.
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Re:Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the ... by Gibbon1 on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:30AM (#27781295)
There another reason for genomic tests they also rule out the need for treatment. Either the tumor is benign or very low grade cancer.
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