Molecular Diagnostics 12 Tests That Changed Everything [Hardcover]

Molecular Diagnostics: 12 Tests That Changed Everything focuses on specific laboratory tests and emphasizes how the availability of these tests has altered how clinicians treat their patients.? Presented as a standard outline, each chapter focuses on a specific molecular test? and provides background on the test and its clinical applications. Continuing with some discussion on how the test is done, interpreted, and used clinically, each chapter then concludes with a discussion of how that test has changed the way medicine is practiced with respect to the disease or condition in question.

Authored by renowned experts in the field, Molecular Diagnostics: 12 Tests That Changed Everything is a valuable resource for pathologists, pathology residents, laboratory directors, development personnel, lab medicine fellows and those working in the broad area of oncology, infectious disease and genetics.

This book emphasizes how 12 key molecular laboratory tests have altered the way clinicians treat their patients. Each chapter focuses on a specific test? and provides background on the test and its clinical applications.

Oncology
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1) Clinical FISH Testing for the Diagnosis of Solid Tumors
Benjamin R Kipp and Kevin C. Halling

2) Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Testing in Lung Adenocarcinoma.
Neal I. Lindeman

3) The Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2)
Laura J. Tafe and Gregory J. Tsongalis

4) Tamoxifen and Irinotecan Pharmacogenomics
John Logan Black III
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Infectious Disease
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5) Hepatitis C Virus Testing
Hassan M.E. Azzazy and? Karim M. Abdel Hady

6) Laboratory Testing for HIV Infection: Advances after 27 years
Joseph Nkeze; Niel Constantine; and Richard Y. Zhao

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