Facilitating rapid precision oncology in anaplastic thyroid cancer: Clinical implications of next generation sequencing (NGS) mutation testing and impact on survival

Authors :: Jennifer Wang
Priyanka C. Iyer
Renata Ferrarotto
Charles Lu
Gary Brandon Gunn
Mark Zafereo
Stephen Y. Lai
Erich M. Sturgis
Gilbert J. Cote
Ramona Dadu
Michelle D. Williams
Naifa L. Busaidy
Maria E. Cabanillas
Neil D. Gross
Jeffrey N. Myers
Source :: Journal of Clinical Oncology. 36:6023-6023
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2018.
Abstract: 6023Background: Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is a rare malignancy characterized by rapid progression and median overall survival (OS) of less than 6 months. With the goal of improving ATC outcom...

Subjects :: Oncology
Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Malignancy
medicine.disease
DNA sequencing
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Precision oncology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Internal medicine
medicine
Overall survival
Mutation testing
Anaplastic thyroid cancer
030223 otorhinolaryngology
business

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