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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

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After successful surgery to remove a bowel cancer this new blood test can detect small fragments of cancer DNA in the blood in a small percentage of patients with stage 2 colon cancer, which indicate the presence of otherwise undetectable cancer cells (micrometastases) in the body, which will grow into metastatic cancers if not treated with chemotherapy

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