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Luis M. Montuenga, PhD, on Noninvasive Biomarkers in Lung Cancer Screening

IASLC 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer in Singapore

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Luis M. Montuenga, PhD, of the University of Navarra, discusses the potential contributions of biomarkers, promising biomarker panels being tested and published, the need to standardize biospecimen collection, and how to improve the sensitivity of these biomarkers (Abstract PL05.06).



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