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Neither approach is inherently better - they serve different budgets, different medical situations, and different risk tolerances - but they shouldn't be evaluated as substitutes for one another

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Results Using data obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), median GLP-1R expression was compared across all TCGA cancer types, split by primary and metastatic tissue, and found to be highest in metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma ( Figure 1a ), despite normal thyroid tissue being ranked 6 th highest overall among TCGA cancers ( Supplementary Figure 2 )

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