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By Joan O'C. Hamilton on September 1, 2003

Blurred Boundaries

These rapid advances in molecular imaging are helping to blur medicine’s traditional boundary between diagnosis and treatment. That’s because the potential to pinpoint molecular events involved in a disease, which is at the core of new imaging methods, raises an even more tantalizing possibility: in addition to diagnosing the problem, why not actively disrupt the process while you’re at it?

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