The Evolving Landscape of Biomarker Testing in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (mCRC)

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Daniel Ahn, DO, discusses the evolution of biomarker testing in metastatic colorectal cancer, highlighting the shift from understanding only the prognostic implications of genetic alterations to recognizing their predictive role in targeted therapies, and emphasizes the potential of circulating tumor DNA for rapid diagnosis and assessing treatment response.

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