Lester Layfield, M.D., University of Missouri-Columbia (IMAGE)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Lester Layfield, M.D., University of Missouri-Columbia

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Lester Layfield, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences at the MU School of Medicine, helped develop a new scoring system for a common lung cancer diagnostic test that may help physicians better understand the risk for malignancy when evaluating patients.

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Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health

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