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Nature 429, 496-497 (3 June 2004) | doi:10.1038/429496a
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Proteomics and cancer: Running before we can walk?
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- Erika Check is Nature's Washington biomedical correspondent.
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Two years ago, a new proteomic test was heralded as the future of cancer diagnostics. But since then, doubts about its effectiveness have begun to grow. Erika Check reports.
Seldom does a single piece of research prompt the US Congress to pass a resolution urging continued funding to drive a new diagnostic test towards the clinic. But that's what happened in 2002, when The Lancet published a paper1 claiming a breakthrough in the diagnosis of ovarian cancer.
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