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Bevacizumab therapy demonstrated marked improvement in both epistaxis severity and abdominal symptoms, despite unchanged radiographic appearance of hepatic AVMs, suggesting therapeutic benefit at the microvasculature level.

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In the BLUE-C trial, Cologuard Plus demonstrated a 93.9% sensitivity for colorectal cancer detection, significantly outperforming the 67.3% sensitivity of FIT.

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