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Plasma cell disorders are detected in the clinical lab by finding the monoclonal immunoglobulin (M-protein) they produce. Serum protein electrophoresis methods have been employed widely to detect and isotype M-proteins. Increasing demands to detect residual disease and new therapeutic monoclonal immunoglobulin treatments have stretched electrophoretic methods to their limits. Newer techniques based on mass spectrometry […]

Lung cancer has one of the lowest 5-year cancer survival rates as by the time a diagnosis is made, the disease has often reached the late stages. This article discusses how advances in understanding of the genetic evolution of cancer, the combi-nation of biomarker testing and CT scans can improve early diagnosis and touches on […]