Epic Sciences Talks Differentiation And Benefits Of Its DefineMBC Cancer Test

Epic Sciences spoke to Medtech Insight to discuss the development of its DefineMBC test for metastatic breast cancer.

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Epic Sciences’s DefineMBC laboratory developed liquid biopsy test has been designed to aid clinicians in the identification and classification of metastatic breast cancer.

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