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AI-Backed Saliva Test Shows Promise for Flagging Chemo Risk

Virginia Tech researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute developed a saliva-based AI screening method that could flag patients at risk for dangerous side effects from a widely used chemotherapy drug. The drug, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), has been in use since the 1950s -- making it one of the oldest chemotherapy agents still used today.

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