Why Molecular Testing is Increasingly Important in CNS Cancers
Primary and metastatic central nervous system (CNS) tumors can have extraordinary biological and anatomical complexity, and these tumors can be hard to identify using traditional imaging or histopathology analysis. Molecular analysis has emerged as a major way to identify these tumors and help medical teams plan how best to help those diagnosed with these cancers. Biomarker testing is a growing field that is making it possible for the molecular structure of CNS cancers to be analyzed for not only diagnostic purposes but also other functions as well. Recent advances like the detection of tumor RNA particles in blood samples now mean that a brain cancer can be identified and tracked without subjecting patients to…
