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New Test Could Reduce Lung Cancer Biopsies

Researchers have found a new way to determine whether abnormal growths in lungs are malignant.

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Researchers have found a new way to determine whether abnormal growths in lungs are malignant, according to a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine. The test is less invasive than existing methods of testing, highly accurate, and possible now because of newly developed technologies. (The Washington Post)

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