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Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Next-Generation Sequencing and Result Interpretation in Clinical Oncology: Challenges of Personalized Cancer Therapy



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Next-Generation Sequencing and Result Interpretation in Clinical Oncology: Challenges of Personalized Cancer Therapy - Annual Review of Medicine, 68(1)


The tools of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, such as targeted sequencing of candidate cancer genes and whole-exome and -genome sequencing, coupled with encouraging clinical results based on the use of targeted therapeutics and biomarker-guided clinical trials, are fueling further technological advancements of NGS technology. However, NGS data interpretation is associated with challenges that must be overcome to promote the techniques’ effective integration into clinical oncology practice. Specifically, sequencing of a patient’s tumor yields 30–65 somatic variants, but most of these variants are “passenger” mutations that are phenotypically neutral and thus not targetable. Therefore, NGS data must be interpreted by multidisciplinary decision-support teams to determine mutation actionability and identify potential “drivers,” so that the treating physician can prioritize what clinical decisions can be pursued in order to provide cancer therapy that is personalized to the patient and his or her unique genome.
Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Medicine Volume 68 is January 14, 2017. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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