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From somatic variants towards precision oncology: Evidence-driven reporting of treatment options in molecular tumor boards
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Hutter, Barbara
Heining, Christoph
Fröhlich, Martina
Fröhling, Stefan
Glimm, Hanno
Brors, Benedikt
DOI
10.1186/s13073-018-0529-2
Abstract
A comprehensive understanding of cancer has been furthered with technological improvements and decreasing costs of next-generation sequencing (NGS). However, the complexity of interpreting genomic data is hindering the implementation of high-throughput technologies in the clinical context: increasing evidence on gene-drug interactions complicates the task of assigning clinical significance to genomic variants.