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Mayo Clinic Study Explores Cerebrospinal Fluid DNA Testing When Brain Tumor Diagnosis Is Uncertain

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A Mayo Clinic study published in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology suggests that analyzing DNA in cerebrospinal fluid could provide another source of information when MRI cannot provide a clear brain tumor diagnosis or obtaining tissue through biopsy is difficult or potentially unsafe.

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