Clinical reporting for personalized cancer genomics requires extensive access to subscription-only literature.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Medical care for cancer is increasingly directed by genomic laboratory testing for alterations in the tumor genome that are significant for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Uniquely in medicine, providers must search the biomedical literature for each patient to determine the clinical significance of these alterations. Access to published scientific literature is frequently subject to high fees, with access limited to institutional subscriptions. We sought to investigate the degree to which the scientific literature is accessible to clinical cancer genomics providers, and the potential role of university and hospital system libraries in information access for cancer care.

Methods

We identified 265 journals that were accessed during the interpretation and reporting

SUBMITTER: D'Souza S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10259627 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature