At the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, Giampaolo Bianchini, MD, of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy, explains that the specific setting and utility of a tumour biomarker must be clearly defined during clinical investigation in order to generate meaningful results. In patients with early stage breast cancer, there is a need to identify new risk factors for disease outcome, which may enable the identification of patients who are likely to respond to specific therapies.
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