Lab Week - Crossword
Across
- 3. A healthcare setting where many diagnostic tests are run.
- 5. The body's defense system.
- 12. Disease area at the center of Exact Sciences' mission.
- 13. What screening and diagnostics aim to improve.
- 14. Return of cancer after treatment.
- 15. Genetic material often measured in molecular assays.
- 16. A group of symptoms or findings that point to disease.
- 18. The person at the center of healthcare decisions.
- 21. The identification of a disease or condition.
- 24. A blood-based approach often contrasted with tissue sampling in oncology.
- 26. Abbreviation for molecular residual disease.
Down
- 1. Treatment given to fight disease.
- 2. Science at the DNA, RNA, and protein level.
- 4. A biological sign, such as DNA or protein, used to detect disease.
- 6. A study that evaluates a medical test or treatment.
- 7. Care tailored to the biology of a person's disease, Exact Sciences helps guide this.
- 8. Describes a test that does not require surgery or major procedures.
- 9. Public health practice of testing people before symptoms appear.
- 10. Unit of heredity analyzed in molecular diagnostics.
- 11. A large class of molecules made of amino acids and used as biomarkers.
- 17. Removal or study of tissue or cells to help confirm disease.
- 19. New home of Exact Sciences.
- 20. Core goal in Exact Sciences' message: detect cancer this way.
- 22. Medical specialty focused on cancer.
- 23. Exact Sciences' well-known noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test.
- 25. Sample type used by many modern diagnostic tests.