February 11, 2014 09:00 pm GMT
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Sequoia-Backed Guardant Health Wants To Improve Cancer Treatment And Diagnosis Via A New Blood Test
When testing for the possibility of certain types of cancer, doctors often do surgery to retrieve biopsies for genetic analysis. But when a patient has already had cancer, and is testing for a possibility of recurrence, Helmy Eltoukhy, the co-founder of medical tech startup Guardant Health, believes that a blood test could replace a biopsy, and avoid surgery.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/c7wLalKzqms/
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