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Know Your Biomarker
Know Your Biomarker is an awareness, education, and advocacy campaign promoting global access to colorectal cancer (bowel cancer) biomarker testing.
What are biomarkers and how are they used in colorectal cancer?
Colorectal cancer biomarkers can provide your medical team with vital information about you and your cancer that can be used to:
Determine prognosis
Guide treatment decisions
Evaluate treatment response
Monitor for recurrence after treatment
Potentially inform your family members about their risk for colorectal cancer
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Biomarker education
With Know Your Biomarker you can learn about specific colorectal cancer biomarkers, biomarker testing, how biomarkers impact cancer treatment, and why you need to know your biomarker.
Know Your Biomarker is an awareness, education, and advocacy campaign promoting global access to colorectal cancer (bowel cancer) biomarker testing.
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Know your biomarker brings together
Patient spokespeople
Patient spokespeople to share their experiences with biomarker testing
Educational material
Medically accurate educational materials for patients in plain language covering biomarkers
Advocacy resources
Adaptable educational and advocacy resources including the Know Your Biomarker patient advocacy toolkit.
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