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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.
List of contents
Clinical FISH Testing for the Diagnosis of Solid Tumors.- Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Testing in Lung Adenocarcinoma.- The Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2).- Tamoxifen and Irinotecan Pharmacogenomics.- Hepatitis C Virus Testing.- Laboratory Testing for HIV Infection: Advances after 27 years.- Detection of Herpes Simplex Virus in Cerebrospinal Fluid using Real-time PCR.- Toward a Safer Blood Supply: The Impact of Molecular Testing.- Chromosomal Microarrays.- BRCA1 and BRCA2 Testing in Inherited Breast Cancer.- Cystic Fibrosis: Carrier Testing, Newborn Screening, and Diagnostic Testing.- Newborn Screening by Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Confirmation.- Next Generation Clinical Diagnostics: The Sequence of Events.
About the author
W. Edward Highsmith, Jr., PhD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Rochester, MN, USA
Summary
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.
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From the reviews:
“This book is intended for molecular pathologists, clinical laboratory directors, genetics/pathology residents/fellows, and clinical laboratory science students. It also would be of great interest to practitioners who use test results from these methodologies in their daily practice -- infectious disease physicians, oncologists, geneticists, neonatologists, obstetricians, etc. -- interested in the technology behind the tests. … This is the book to read if you want a quick, concise, and relatively current update on molecular diagnostic tests that have truly changed medical practice.” (Valerie L. Ng, Doody’s Book Reviews, January, 2014)
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From the reviews:
"This book is intended for molecular pathologists, clinical laboratory directors, genetics/pathology residents/fellows, and clinical laboratory science students. It also would be of great interest to practitioners who use test results from these methodologies in their daily practice -- infectious disease physicians, oncologists, geneticists, neonatologists, obstetricians, etc. -- interested in the technology behind the tests. ... This is the book to read if you want a quick, concise, and relatively current update on molecular diagnostic tests that have truly changed medical practice." (Valerie L. Ng, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2014)
