Molecular biomarkers in cancer

VK Sarhadi, G Armengol - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Molecular cancer biomarkers are any measurable molecular indicator of risk of cancer,
occurrence of cancer, or patient outcome. They may include germline or somatic genetic …

Molecular profiling identifies targeted therapy opportunities in pediatric solid cancer

AJ Church, LB Corson, PC Kao, A Imamovic-Tuco… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
To evaluate the clinical impact of molecular tumor profiling (MTP) with targeted sequencing
panel tests, pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors were enrolled in a prospective …

Adult-Onset Cancer Predisposition Syndromes in Children and Adolescents—To Test or not to Test?

CP Kratz, PJ Lupo, K Zelley, J Schienda… - Clinical Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
With the increasing use of comprehensive germline genetic testing of children and
adolescents with cancer, it has become evident that pathogenic variants (PVs) in adult-onset …

Integrating pharmacogenomic testing into paired germline and somatic genomic testing in patients with cancer

ND Seligson, JM Kolesar, B Alam, L Baker… - …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Precision medicine has revolutionized clinical care for patients with cancer through the
development of targeted therapy, identification of inherited cancer predisposition syndromes …

Comprehensive cancer predisposition testing within the prospective MASTER trial identifies hereditary cancer patients and supports treatment decisions for rare …

A Jahn, A Rump, TJ Widmann, C Heining, P Horak… - Annals of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Germline variant evaluation in precision oncology opens new paths toward the
identification of patients with genetic tumor risk syndromes and the exploration of therapeutic …

Innovations in Cancer Treatment of Children

L Helms, AE Guimera, KA Janeway, KM Bailey - Pediatrics, 2023 - publications.aap.org
Pediatric cancer outcomes have significantly improved, and yet this success is not spread
equally across cancer types or patients. Disparities data in pediatric oncology highlight …

Molecular profiling of 888 pediatric tumors informs future precision trials and data-sharing initiatives in pediatric cancer

SJ Forrest, H Gupta, A Ward, YY Li, D Doan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
To inform clinical trial design and real-world precision pediatric oncology practice, we
classified diagnoses, assessed the landscape of mutations, and identified genomic variants …

Parent Quality of Life After Disclosure of Pediatric Oncology Germline Sequencing Results

KM Howard Sharp, C Li, Z Lu, ME Clark… - JCO Precision …, 2023 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE To characterize parents' quality of life (QoL) after germline genomic sequencing
for their children with cancer. METHODS Participants were n= 104 parents of children with …

Addition of germline testing to tumor-only sequencing improves detection of pathogenic germline variants in men with advanced prostate cancer

JE Berchuck, D Boiarsky, R Silver, R Sunkara… - JCO Precision …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Guidelines recommend somatic and germline testing for men with advanced
prostate cancer (PCa). Barriers to widespread implementation result in underutilization of …

Landscape of germline cancer predisposition mutations testing and management in pediatrics: Implications for research and clinical care

SA Shahani, EL Marcotte - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As germline genetic testing capacities have improved over the last two decades,
increasingly more people are newly diagnosed with germline cancer susceptibility …