In the study, published in Gastroenterology, Duke researchers identified genomic subtypes that show marked differences in response.
Since the 1960s, gastroenterologists have noticed differences in responses to treatments in stomach cancer patients, suggesting the tumors were fundamentally different.
Read the Duke Health release on researchers identifying two different types of stomach cancer.
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