UID:
almafu_9959235394902883
Format:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-84692-653-X
Content:
A survey of best practice and collection of cases in precision oncology, and BMA Oncology Book of the Year.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 01 An Introduction to Precision Oncology -- 02 Testicular Cancer: a Successful Model for Biomarker-Guided Precision Cancer Care -- 03 Cancer Susceptibility Genes -- 04 Tumour Biology and Somatic Genetics as They Underpin Precision Oncology -- 05 Pharmacogenomics -- 06 Introducing Next Generation Sequencing into Routine Practice: the Benefits and Challenges -- 07 An Introduction to Proteomics and the Discovery of New Renal Cancer Biomarkers -- 08 Precision Medicine for Multiple Myeloma -- 09 Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma -- 10 Stratified Medicine in the UK -- 11 The Economic Challenge of Healthcare Provision in Precision Oncology -- 12 Clinical Trials in Precision Oncology -- 13 Developing Diagnostic Tests for Precision Oncology -- 14 Use of Circulating Tumour-Derived Nucleic Acids in Precision Oncology -- 15 Ethical Issues in Precision Oncology/Cancer Genetics -- 01 A Breast Cancer Patient with a BRCA1 Mutation -- 02 A Patient with DNA Mismatch Repair- Deficient Colorectal Cancer -- 03 A Patient with Advanced Melanoma for Systemic Therapy with a BRAF Inhibitor -- 04 Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma with Activating EGFR Mutation -- 05 A Patient with an Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour Tested for a KIT Mutation, with Important Drug-Drug Interactions -- 06 A Man with a Mediastinal Sarcoma Receiving Neoadjuvant Therapy -- 07 A Patient with Relapsed Myeloma and High-Risk Cytogenetics -- 08 A Young Man with High-Grade Orbital Lymphoma -- 09 Li-Fraumeni Syndrome -- 10 Von Hippel-Lindau Disease and Renal Cancer -- 11 A Breast Cancer Patient Tested with Oncotype DX -- 12 A Patient with Ovarian Cancer for Whom Treatment Is Guided by Multiplatform Tumour Molecular Profiling.
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13 A Teenager with a Small-Round-Blue- Cell Tumour and a Diagnostic Translocation -- 14 Treatment Based on Clinical Prognostic Factors and Molecular Profiling in Medulloblastoma -- 15 A Patient with Locally Advanced Human Papillomavirus-Positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- 16 A Colorectal Cancer Patient -- 17 A Patient with Advanced Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer and Poor Physical Fitness -- 18 A Patient with Localized Prostate Cancer -- 19 A Patient with BRCA-Mutated Ovarian Cancer -- 20 High-Count T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia with Treatment Stratification Based on Minimal Residual Disease Response -- 21 Application of Cancer Genomics to Routine Care.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84692-111-2
Language:
English
