Quantifying the expanding landscape of clinical actionability for patients with cancer

SP Suehnholz, MH Nissan, H Zhang, R Kundra… - Cancer Discovery, 2024 - AACR
There is a continuing debate about the proportion of cancer patients that benefit from
precision oncology, attributable in part to conflicting views as to which molecular alterations …

Understanding inequities in precision oncology diagnostics

R Dutta, M Vallurupalli, Q McVeigh, FW Huang… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Advances in molecular diagnostics have enabled the identification of targetable driver
pathogenic variants, forming the basis of precision oncology care. However, the adoption of …

[HTML][HTML] Outcomes in breast cancer—does ethnicity matter?

YS Yap - ESMO open, 2023 - Elsevier
Ethnic or racial differences in breast cancer (BC) survival outcomes have been reported, but
current data are largely restricted to comparisons between African Americans and non …

Molecular characterization of endometrial carcinomas in Black and White patients reveals disparate drivers with therapeutic implications

B Weigelt, A Marra, P Selenica, E Rios-Doria… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Although the incidence of endometrial carcinoma (EC) is similar in Black and White women,
racial disparities are stark, with the highest mortality rates observed among Black patients …

Tumor sequencing of African ancestry reveals differences in clinically relevant alterations across common cancers

E Jiagge, DX Jin, JY Newberg, T Perea-Chamblee… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer genomes from patients with African (AFR) ancestry have been poorly studied in
clinical research. We leverage two large genomic cohorts to investigate the relationship …

Precision oncology: 2023 in review

YR Murciano-Goroff, SP Suehnholz, A Drilon… - Cancer Discovery, 2023 - AACR
This article presents a review of recent major advances in precision oncology and the future
implications of these advances, specifying the iterative progress achieved from the end of …

Pathogenic germline variants in patients with endometrial cancer of diverse ancestry

YL Liu, S Gordhandas, K Arora, E Rios‐Doria… - Cancer, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Racial disparities in outcomes exist in endometrial cancer (EC). The
contribution of ancestry‐based variations in germline pathogenic variants (gPVs) is …

Deep-learning model for tumor-type prediction using targeted clinical genomic sequencing data

M Darmofal, S Suman, G Atwal, M Toomey, JF Chen… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Tumor type guides clinical treatment decisions in cancer, but histology-based diagnosis
remains challenging. Genomic alterations are highly diagnostic of tumor type, and tumor …

TERT Promoter Mutations Frequency Across Race, Sex, and Cancer Type

T El Zarif, M Machaalani, R Nawfal, AH Nassar… - The …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene promoter mutations have been
explored, as biomarkers of improved survival for patients with cancer receiving immune …

Pan-cancer comparative and integrative analyses of driver alterations using Japanese and international genomic databases

S Horie, Y Saito, Y Kogure, K Mizuno, Y Ito, M Tabata… - Cancer Discovery, 2024 - AACR
Using 48,627 samples from the Center for Cancer Genomics and Advanced Therapeutics (C-
CAT), we present a pan-cancer landscape of driver alterations and their clinical actionability …