In the era of personalized medicine, knowing what type of lung cancer a patient has is critical to determine which drug will work best and which therapies are safest.
Key to making that judgment is an adequate tumor specimen for the pathologist to determine the tumor's histology, a molecular description of a tumor based on the appearance of cells under a microscope. But not all specimens are perfect, and are sometimes so complex that a definitive diagnosis presents a challenge.
Scientists ...
In the era of personalized medicine, knowing what type of lung cancer a patient has is critical to determine which drug will work best and which therapies are safest.
Key to making that judgment is an adequate tumor specimen for the pathologist to determine the tumor's histology, a molecular description of a tumor based on the appearance of cells under a microscope. But not all specimens are perfect, and are sometimes so complex that a definitive diagnosis presents a challenge.
Scientists ...