Genetic Testing and Tissue Banking for Personalized Oncology: Analytical and Institutional Factors.

ABSTRACT: Personalized oncology, or more aptly precision oncogenomics, refers to the identification and implementation of clinically actionable targets tailored to an individual patient's cancer genomic information. Banking of human tissue and other biospecimens establishes a framework to extract and collect the data essential to our understanding of disease pathogenesis and treatment. Cancer cooperative groups in the United States have led the way in establishing robust biospecimen collection mechanisms to facilitate translational research, and combined with technological advances in molecular testing, tissue banking has expanded from its traditional base in academic research and is assuming an increasingly pivotal role in directing the clinical care of cancer patients. Comprehensive screening of t

SUBMITTER: Miles G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4705034 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature