Finding
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Cancers Caused by HPV Respond Better to Treatment — a New Study Helps Explain Why
According to Memorial Sloan Kettering scientists, it has to do with what the virus does to a cell’s DNA repair machinery.
Clinical Update
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MSK Investigators Create a Highly Accurate Liquid Biopsy for Identifying Early-Stage HPV-Associated Oral and Anal Cancers
At MSK we have developed a highly accurate, low-cost assay, for identifying early-stage oral and anal cancers associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) using liquid biopsy.