Functional precision cancer medicine-moving beyond pure genomics

Nature Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1028-1035

  Letai, Anthony ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; BH3 PROTEIN;

CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POINT MUTATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; DRUG SCREENING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PRECISION MEDICINE; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 85029119685     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.4389     Document Type: Review

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