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Interferometric Serum Test for Cancer
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Interferometric Serum Test for Cancer

  • M. W. METTENLEITER1 

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A PRACTICAL optical test of the blood serum that appears to prove of assistance in the early diagnosis and prognosis of cancer is here described, the validity of which has been ascertained in a few hundred clinical cases.

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  1. St. Clare's Hospital, Tumor Division, New York City, N.Y.

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