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Comprehensive Gene Mutation Profiling of Breast Tumors: Is It Ready for Prime Time Use?

Comprehensive Gene Mutation Profiling of Breast Tumors: Is It Ready for Prime Time Use? Recent advances in molecular biology have led to unprecedented innovations in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The advent of genomics has revolutionized our understanding of breast cancer. It is no longer considered a single disease but several different biologically and molecularly distinct entities. This research has led to commercially available polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-, microarray-, and next generation sequencing (NGS)-based tests which have changed the way oncologists estimate recurrence risk in early stage breast cancer patients. The genomics era has altered the clinicopathologic paradigm of selecting patients for adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy. Numerous well designed prospective studies are underway that may establish these molecular assays as basic elements of standard clinical practice in breast cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. In this article, we review the robustnesses and constraints of currently available breast cancer-specific molecular tests and their clinical ramifications. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Current Breast Cancer Reports Springer Journals

Comprehensive Gene Mutation Profiling of Breast Tumors: Is It Ready for Prime Time Use?

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Oncology; Internal Medicine; Surgical Oncology
ISSN
1943-4588
eISSN
1943-4596
DOI
10.1007/s12609-016-0213-8
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Abstract

Recent advances in molecular biology have led to unprecedented innovations in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The advent of genomics has revolutionized our understanding of breast cancer. It is no longer considered a single disease but several different biologically and molecularly distinct entities. This research has led to commercially available polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-, microarray-, and next generation sequencing (NGS)-based tests which have changed the way oncologists estimate recurrence risk in early stage breast cancer patients. The genomics era has altered the clinicopathologic paradigm of selecting patients for adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy. Numerous well designed prospective studies are underway that may establish these molecular assays as basic elements of standard clinical practice in breast cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. In this article, we review the robustnesses and constraints of currently available breast cancer-specific molecular tests and their clinical ramifications.

Journal

Current Breast Cancer ReportsSpringer Journals

Published: May 3, 2016

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