Understanding the Precision in “Precision Medicine”
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Understanding the Precision in “Precision Medicine”
In this issue of The Oncologist, we begin a series of articles that consider the often problematic challenge of understanding and applying genomic information to the practice of oncology. Bardia et al. [1] describe the genomic findings from a patient with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer after progression on hormonal therapy. In this case, tumor profiling revealed an ESR1 mutation ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Oncologist
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1083-7159,1549-490X
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2016-0278