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LAM not silenced, wins breakthrough device nod for liver cancer blood test

Sep. 4, 2019
By Meg Bryant
The U.S. FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to Laboratory for Advanced Medicine Inc. (LAM) for its liquid biopsy blood test for the detection of liver cancer. The test, which analyzes the DNA methylation pattern of cell-free DNA (cfDNA), is designed to detect the presence of hepatocellular cancer as early as stage 1, with both high specificity and sensitivity.
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